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Not posting your O/S and Shell details is driving me nuts!
We really need to know whether the O/S Shell can cope with numbers above 2147483647 ((2 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) -1 ). i.e. a 32-bit O/S.
The unix bc command can cope with much larger numbers.
I give up.
Last edited by methyl; 04-18-2012 at 09:04 PM..