No one asked what I was doing with 120,526,770 records

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Sat Feb 12 19:45:25 PST 2005


Quoting Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>:

> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
> >
> > It's a "quirk" of bc that you're getting the wrong result.  Because
> > you are running with the default "scale=0", all intermediate
> > calculations are rounded to integers:
>
> Doh.  You're perfectly correct, of course.  I didn't turn on scale.
> Thanks for pointing out my omission.  Amazing what incremental rounding
> will do.

Blame it on the butterfly.

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