On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 13:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:59, Ross Drummond wrote: > > I am in the middle of some script wrangling. > > > > I am having difficulty making bc work how I want. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ echo "scale=0; 2*2.3" |bc > > > > returns 4.6. I want it to return an integer. > > > > How do I make bc do this? > echo "scale=0; (2*2.3)/1"
thats weird when i start up bc, scale is set to 0 1/3 gives answer 0 (expected) 2*2.3 gives 4.6 (not expected) 2*2.3/1 gives 4 (expectation indeterminate given the line above) is this a bug or something I am not grokking?
