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Floating Point Math in Bash

Posted March 6, 2013 at 13:35 by Hisham (Notes for OpenFOAM!)

This post is copied from: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/...oint-math-bash
Floating Point Math in Bash, By Mitch Frazier

To use floating point arithmetic in Bash one can source this script (i.e. source floatSupport.sh). The floatSupport.sh is:

Code:

#!/bin/bash 
# 
# Floating point number functions. 

##################################################################### 
# Default scale used by float functions.

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