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From: mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Calculators
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Date: 27 Feb 88 00:12:03 GMT
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In article <12002@brl-adm.ARPA> roberts@icst-cmr.arpa (John Roberts) writes:

>Are there ANY calculator utilities that will run under Unix (4.3)
>that support FLOATING POINT operations? Maybe even transcendental
>functions? I'm tired of the ones that only work with integers.

Try bc(1).  If the first thing you say is "scale=10", then you get
10 digit precision.  You can set scale pretty high; I am not sure
what the upper limit is.


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