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Re: division math problems in bash!
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: division math problems in bash! |
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Fri, 25 May 2001 15:51:59 -0400 |
> I stumbled across this problem and am wondering if i am missing
> something. It appears that bash on my system cannot divide properly.
> The version of bash I am running is: 2.04.12(1) for linux-mandrake.
Bash is right. Your idea about what it is doing is wrong. Read up
on what the `%' operator does and think about why it's incorrect to
just stick it to the right of a decimal point.
--
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( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/