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# 1  
Old 05-20-2005
How to add two large values
Hi,

Gives me wrong value when,

$ echo `expr 2221753117 + 299363384`
-1773850795

How to overcome this?

Appreciate any help on this.

-Om
# 2  
Old 05-20-2005
#/bin/ksh
number1=9888673663678977
number2=79872372378273472379837
result=`bc << EOF
$number1 + $number2
EOF`
echo "$number1 + $number2 = $result"



Try this script.
# 3  
Old 05-20-2005
Thanks for your script. It helped me a lot today.......

Thanks Again.
-Om
# 4  
Old 05-21-2005
or more simply
result=`echo "2221753117 + 299363384" | bc`

Cheers
ZB
# 5  
Old 06-10-2005
or
Code:
dc -e '2221753117 299363384+p'

# 6  
Old 06-10-2005
You can simply try as,

echo $((2221753117 + 299363384))

hth.
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