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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to provide percentages? Post 302602388 by methyl on Monday 27th of February 2012 07:48:23 AM
Old 02-27-2012
Similar to balajesuri (option 2)

Mathematically shouldn't the answer be negative?:
Code:
echo "scale=2;(((3 - 400) * 100)/400)"|bc
-99.25 %


Last edited by methyl; 02-27-2012 at 08:57 AM.. Reason: units
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