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floating point bash calculator w/o precision

terms inclosing '()' must be enclosed by "" (soft quotes) bash variables must be referenced: b $x/$y ugly bracket checking (balanced, fractions...) default precision 2 Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
b 6*7 -> 42
b "e(1)" 6 -> 2.718281
a=1; b=1/7; b $a/$b -> 0.14
```
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b(){ echo "scale=${2:-2}; $1" | bc -l; }

dadi · 2009-12-23 23:44:31 9

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