Joachim,
10^2 Thanks!
I made one _little_ change. I always name my macros, etc. starting with a
Capital Letter, so as to keep them distinct from the standard offerings.
Mike Bianchi
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:41:39PM +0200, Joachim Walsdorff wrote:
> Here is a little macro to enhance the restricted groff-arithmetics. It
> uses the unix bc-command for arbitrary precision calculations (see the
> bc-manpage). Maybe it's easier to use for people (like me) who are not
> familiar with pic to use its numerical engine like suggested by Ted:
>
> .de calc
> . sy echo -n ".ds *calc " > /tmp/calc; echo "\\$*" | bc -l >> /tmp/calc
> . pso cat /tmp/calc; rm /tmp/calc
> ..
>
> The argument of calc is the expression to be calculated; string *calc
> returns the result. groff must be called with -U, because the register
> .U is readonly and therefore it is not possible to change between
> safe/unsafe-mode inside groff.
>
> Examples:
>
> .calc scale=5; 10^2 \" scale=5: 5 digits right from the decimal point.
> .tm \*[*calc] => 100.00000
>
> The second example should yield the same result:
>
> .calc scale=5; e(2*l(10))\" e=exponential function, l=natural logarithm.
> .tm \*[*calc] => 99.99898
>
> This result is not exact, since bc /truncates/ (without rounding) the
> values of e(2) and l (10) to 5 digits (value of scale).
>
> Joachim
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