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Did you try |
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scale=n |
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Where n is the number of digits after the decimal? More in man bc. |
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> From: "Mike Huber" <michael.huber@×××××.com> |
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> Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version |
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> installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't |
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> used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are |
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> no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this. From the manpage: |
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> The most basic element in bc is the number. Numbers are arbitrary precision |
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> numbers. This precision is both in the integer part and the fractional |
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> part. All numbers are represented internally in decimal and all computation |
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> is done in decimal. (This version truncates results from divide and |
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> multiply operations.) There are two attributes of numbers, the length and |
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> the scale. The length is the total number of significant decimal digits |
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> in a number and the scale is the total number of decimal digits after the |
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> decimal point. For example: |
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> .000001 has a length of 6 and scale of 6. |
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> 1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale of 3. |
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> Anyone have any ideas? |
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> --Mike |
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