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% echo 23 / 7 | bc -l
3.28571428571428571428
No, two problems.
bc turns out to be nonportable (!!)
(It has only been in Unix since June of 1974...)
Calling out to bc all the time is really slow
Too slow for a command you want to run to set your prompt
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