Just want to know if bash convert engineering number

Asked By Ruth E Tran 80 points N/A Posted on - 02/06/2013

Hi there! I'm working on my so called engineering software and would like to incorporate bash. Does bash convert engineering number? Just want to be sure first before using it. Thanks.

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Answered By Parisi Petrusic 0 points N/A #198386

Just want to know if bash convert engineering number

Hello,

 

Yes, definitely bash can do number crunching on scientific notations. You can make your bash script even more powerful

by incorporating the use of a famous text processing utility named awk. With that you have to define fewer number of variables than you would in your bash script. For reference here is a very good site. I am giving you a link to a discussion that talks about this very issue.

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13192108/reading-numbers-in-scientific-notation-using-bash

 

Hope it helps.

 

Best Regards,

Parisi

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