OT: bc

John Esak john at valar.com
Fri Jan 20 05:07:31 PST 2006


Does anyone know how to set "bc" to calculate the same way filePro does.
With respoect to rounding that is.

filePro will give 15.36 as the value for:

   aa(10,.2)="102.39" * ".15"

and no matter what I do, bc gives 15.35 to the same mulitplication. I've set
precision equal to 2, 4, 9, doesn't matter. If the precision goes up, it
just goes up without rounding. If it goes lower down to 2, it truncates. Any
way to have it not truncate but round?

I like to check figures in filePro with bc and it's impossible. I've scanned
the man page, of course, but didn't see anything about rounding.

John



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