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Old 09-01-2003, 02:47 PM   #1
Dimitris
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square root problems - script


Hello there,

I wrote that script with abit of help in the lines commented
I get an error that I can not fix.
Could somebody help ?

#!/bin/bash

RANDOM=$$

let a=`expr $RANDOM % 10`
let b=`expr $RANDOM % 10`
let c=`expr $RANDOM % 10`

echo "A is equal to: "$a
echo "B is equal to: "$b
echo "C is equal to: "$c

d=$(($b*$b-4*$a*$c))

echo "The D is eqaul to: "$d

if (($d>0))
then

z=`echo "sqrt ($b*b-4*$a*$c)" | bc -l`

one=`echo $z | cut -d"+" -f #HERE
two=`echo $z | cut -d"-" -f #HERE

echo "+ Number is equal to: "$one
echo "- Number is eqaul to: "$two

else

./sqrt.txt

fi



Thanks alot,
Later
 
Old 09-01-2003, 10:41 PM   #2
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I suppose the error is that you haven't mentioned the field-number
Check man cut for more details ....

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Old 09-02-2003, 12:19 AM   #3
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#!/bin/sh
a=5
b=14
c=4
d=$(($b*$b-4*$a*$c))
SQRT=`echo "sqrt ($d)" | bc -l`
echo $SQRT


Then the output of this code would be

10.77032961426900806250

I think that
"Only one value gets stored in the variable $SQRT....."

Tell me if I am wrong
 
Old 09-02-2003, 02:52 PM   #4
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your are right....strange it was giving me two numbers....does it matter if the variable is $SQRT or $somethingelse ...otherwise It looks strange to me.

Thanks
 
Old 09-02-2003, 10:05 PM   #5
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your are right....strange it was giving me two numbers....does it matter if the variable is $SQRT or $somethingelse ...otherwise It looks strange to me.

Thanks

No it doesn't matter . And as far as I know sqrt() returns only the posiive value
 
  


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