On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche <li...@stefan-krusche.de> wrote: > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Curt: >> On 2018-07-17, Stefan Krusche <li...@stefan-krusche.de> wrote: >> > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: >> >> bc FTW - so quick, so handy >> >> >> >> First line I always run though is: >> >> scale=9 >> > >> > When you don't want to type this every time: >> > >> > $ cat ~/.bcrc >> > scale=3 >> >> Nein? > > Hi Curt, > > unfortunately I have absolutely no idea what you want to say by this response > which translates to "No?"... :-(
Hi Stefan, Yeah, it was kind of a deliberate (and obscure) metathesis/anagram/bilingual play on words because he wants 9 (nein, nine) and you showed 3 (when he always wants nine)! curty@einstein:~$ echo 'scale=2; 2.777 - 1.4744' | bc 1.3026 Oops. Should read the man page I guess*. In other words, a complete waste of everybody's time as usual (by yours truly, of course, meaning me). * It seems division uses the scale variable, but not addition, subtraction, or multiplication. They use the scale of the operands. "expr / expr". > Kind Regards, > Stefan > > -- The superintendent and the gang bosses all turned out with revolvers in black holsters strapped around their waists and one of them made a speech in English and another one Sicilian saying that this was a squareshooting concern that had always treated laborers square and if they didn’t like it they could get the hell out. --John Dos Passos, 1919 (second book of U.S.A. trilogy)
