http://dcortesi.com/2005/10/09/decimal-math-in-shell-scripts/ Coding, Security, and maybe a little bit about Damon Cortesi Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:56:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://dcortesi.com/2005/10/09/decimal-math-in-shell-scripts/#comment-2534 Damon Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:28:28 +0000 http://dcortesi.com/2005/10/09/decimal-math-in-shell-scripts/#comment-2534 Ah, very good point. I had never even heard of dc prior to playing with this and was surprised to find that bash could only do integer math. Thanks for the update! Ah, very good point. I had never even heard of dc prior to playing with this and was surprised to find that bash could only do integer math. Thanks for the update!

]]> http://dcortesi.com/2005/10/09/decimal-math-in-shell-scripts/#comment-2533 Alex Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:13:28 +0000 http://dcortesi.com/2005/10/09/decimal-math-in-shell-scripts/#comment-2533 Just a quickie on why the variable was chosen, even if slightly longer compute. $RANDOM was chosen because it's part of bash; when dealing cross-platform (Solaris, AIX, Linux), we found that bash was always a common package loaded. Just a quickie on why the variable was chosen, even if slightly longer compute. $RANDOM was chosen because it’s part of bash; when dealing cross-platform (Solaris, AIX, Linux), we found that bash was always a common package loaded.

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