No one asked what I was doing with 120,526,770 records
Bill Vermillion
fp at wjv.com
Sat Feb 12 22:31:32 PST 2005
Kenneth Brody, the prominent pundit, on Sat, Feb 12 22:45 while half
mumbling half-witicized:
> 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.
The one that beats it's wings in a Pacific rim country and causes
it to rain here, or the fat buy in the blue suit?
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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