If you're using fish 2.3.0 or newer (e.g., git head) we already support
this: e.g., math -s5 10 / 3
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Glenn Jackman <jack...@pythian.com> wrote:
> Can't test right now but this should work
>
> function bc
> begin
> echo scale=6
> cat
> end | command bc
> end
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> On Oct 22, 2016 3:41 AM, "Lists" <barn...@drofle.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 21/10/16 19:04, Glenn Jackman 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Have not tried that. I see that you have set up a function. It does
>> give a lot of decimal places which I am trying to avoid. I use the
>> following, as an example, to get 22/7.
>>
>> echo (echo "scale=6; 22/7" | bc)
>> 3.142857
>>
>> If I change the scale to 8, for example, I get 3.14285714
>>
>> The query I was referring to was setting the number of decimal places in
>> the answer. That is my way. There are probably better ways.
>>
>> Neil
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