On Mon, September 9, 2013 18:18, Gilles Schipper wrote:
> Remove the "| bc" at the end and you will get the desired result.
>

That sort of avoids the issue as I would like to calculate a formula
with containing factors of arbitrary decimal precision and assign the
integer result to a variable.  Inside the shell I can do this:

shell/iX> x=$(echo "31.1 * 4.7" | bc)
shell/iX> echo $x
146.1
shell/iX> x=$(echo "31.1 * 4.7 + 2" | bc)
shell/iX> echo $x
148.1
shell/iX> x=$(echo "31.1 * 4.70 + 2" | bc)
shell/iX> echo $x
148.17

What I would like to do is the same thing albeit at the MPE : prompt
instead and assign the result to an MPE variable

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