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From: johnl@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: bc or dc
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 23:42:53 EDT
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Nf-From: haddock!johnl    Jul  2 15:38:00 1984

>How does one do a division and get a floating point answer?

Why, one reads the manual pages, wherein it is clearly stated that
you use a "k" command in dc or the equivalent "scale = N" in bc to
set the number of digits retained.  The section 2 articles on bc
and dc discuss the interpretation of scale factor in some detail.

Dyspeptically,
John Levine, ima!johnl