As the math function uses `bc`, I alias `bc` to `bc -l`
$ math 3/4
0
$ function bc; command bc -l $argv; end
$ math 3/4
.75000000000000000000
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Lists <barn...@drofle.co.uk> wrote:
> I am a fairly new user to the fish shell, but not new to Linux. I am
> finding fish a lot preferable to bash. I have noticed, while googling
> about this shell, that there seem to be some queries about doing some
> arithmetic, especially with floating point numbers.
>
> What seems to cause the most queries are division and scaling the
> result. I have now got that worked out, so if anyone is interested I can
> email my methods. However, I expect that most of you have already got is
> all sorted, and I had better keep quiet and go away.
>
> Anyway, thanks for all the hard work,
>
> Neil
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