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> elestial.com] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:08 AM
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> Subject: OT: bc
> 
> 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

Using an old fashioned calculator have a 4 place decimal, it show the answer
as 15.3585.  It appears that fp is yielding the proper rounded answer 15.36.
At least based on what I was taught back in elementary school (which
according to my wife was "in the year of the flood" :)).

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting