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Old 02-14-2007
Displaying fraction values after arithmetic division
Hi ,

I have the following line of code :

HTML Code:
new=$(($old/300))
But if the value is less than 300 i get the answer as "0" .

How will i get the fraction values ?

sars
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Old 02-14-2007
Code:
new=$( echo "scale=6;$old / 300" | bc )

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Old 02-14-2007
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Thanks for that quick reply .
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