Note that commit d97c22df, merged 2016-05-02, added a "-sN" flag to the
math command to specify a scale factor. It's not ideal being a compromise
to keep from breaking existing uses of the math command versus switching to
something other than bc behind the scenes.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Glenn Jackman <jack...@pythian.com> wrote:
> 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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