Floating Point Math in Bash

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 31, 2008 12:39 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Mitch Frazier
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When you think about it, it's surprising how many programming tasks don't require the use of floating point numbers. If you're an embedded systems programmer, you'd probably get fired for using "double" in a C program. If you write PHP or JavaScript, quick, do they even support floating point? One language that doesn't support it is Bash, but let's not let that stop us.

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