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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try > > > > scale=n > > > > Where n is the number of digits after the decimal? More in man bc. > > > > > From: "Mike Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT > > > To: [email protected] > > > 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 > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- [email protected] mailing list
