johnl@haddock.UUCP (07/05/84)
>How does one do a division and get a floating point answer?
Why, one reads the manual pages, wherein it is clearly stated that
you use a "k" command in dc or the equivalent "scale = N" in bc to
set the number of digits retained. The section 2 articles on bc
and dc discuss the interpretation of scale factor in some detail.
Dyspeptically,
John Levine, ima!johnl