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Old 04-22-2009
colemar colemar is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kodak View Post
bash does not do floating point math by itself
But apparently ksh does:
Code:
colemar@deb:~$ echo $((1.0/7))
bash: 1.0/7: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".0/7")
colemar@deb:~$ ksh
$ echo $((1.0/7))
0.142857142857142857