-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 06:14:00PM +0000, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > It is Sunday and I don't like Mondays > tell me why > > to...@tuxteam.de: > > Hm. Neither expr nor bc are bash, they are "external" binaries. If you > > want to do arithmetic in bash, there's $((...)): > > > > tomas@rasputin:~$ echo $(( (3+4)/3 )) > > 2 > > I see your 2 and raise you > nosuchagency@bottomofthesea:~$ echo $(((3000000000+4000000000)/3)) > 2333333333 > > Infinitely inaccurate digital systems
:-) Try GNU Guile: it'll happily fill your computer's memory with long integers: tomas@rasputin:~$ guile GNU Guile 2.0.13.5-458ae Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guile-user)> (expt 2 2) $1 = 4 ; aha: that's the function we're looking for ;-) scheme@(guile-user)> (expt 2 400) $2 = 2582249878086908589655919172003011874329705792829223512830659356540647622016841194629645353280137831435903171972747493376 regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAli8dgEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ6kQCfSApe0fBbLHYUjrM5o251Z1j8 ojUAniMceGWgFKkSfcndntQDrWyi9BIB =/cuA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
