Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

You're welcome.  Don't feel bad - it took me a "This thing can't be that dumb" 
and a man page read to find out it was smarter than I thought <G>.

On Wednesday May 24 2006 17:15, Mike Huber wrote:
> duh, sorry, case of me not fully reading the manpage.  I'll be sure and
> fully read before I send to the list.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> --Mike
>
> On 5/24/06, brettholcomb@bellsouth.net <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Did you try
> >
> > scale=n
> >
> > Where n is the number of digits after the decimal?  More in man bc.
> >
> > > From: "Mike Huber" <michael.huber@gmail.com>
> > > Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT
> > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >    I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the
> >
> > version
> >
> > > installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division.  It
> >
> > didn't
> >
> > > used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there
> >
> > are
> >
> > > no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this.  From the
> >
> > manpage:
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > The most basic element in bc is the number.  Numbers are arbitrary
> >
> > precision
> >
> > > numbers.  This precision is both in the  integer  part  and  the
> >
> > fractional
> >
> > > part.  All numbers are represented internally in decimal and all
> >
> > computation
> >
> > > is done in decimal.  (This  version  truncates  results from divide and
> > > multiply operations.)  There are two attributes of numbers, the length
> >
> > and
> >
> > > the scale.  The length is the total number of
> >
> > significant  decimal  digits
> >
> > > in a number and the scale is the total number of decimal digits after
> >
> > the
> >
> > > decimal point.  For example:
> > >                .000001 has a length of 6 and scale of 6.
> > >                1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale of 3.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >-
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > > --Mike
> >
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