From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash & decimal/exponential numbers math...
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:29:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4388E1C5.7080101@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21449.1132659142@www39.gmx.net>
jarry@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a short script for simple text file processing in bash
> (using "<" for input redirection and "read"). I know, there are
<snip>
> Now what to do? Are there some functions, which would implement basic
> math with real numbers in bash (add, substract, multiply, divide
> and round would be enough)?
> The idea of writing them myself really scares me...
>
> Jarry
>
Lots of way to do math from command line. Check out
bc
dc
even python (echo "print (10E3-123)/123" | python
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2005-11-22 11:32 [gentoo-user] OT: bash & decimal/exponential numbers math jarry
2005-11-26 22:29 ` Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
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