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divide issue

Hi,
I have a issue dividing 2 values in UNIX

a=15
b=100
c = a / b ==> and it is returning 0 instead of 0.15 into variable C.

How can i resolve this issue ? please help

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You might wanna try using bc(1)

Code:

echo '15/100' | bc -e scale=2

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