Calculators

[Michael I. Bushnell]

In article <12002 at brl-adm.ARPA> roberts at icst-cmr.arpa (John Roberts) writes:

>Are there ANY calculator utilities that will run under Unix (4.3)
>that support FLOATING POINT operations? Maybe even transcendental
>functions? I'm tired of the ones that only work with integers.

Try bc(1).  If the first thing you say is "scale=10", then you get
10 digit precision.  You can set scale pretty high; I am not sure
what the upper limit is.


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