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Old 1st April 2010
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can someone tell me how to declare a variable as long integer? I have a small script parsing logfiles and it bails out from bc because of a division by zero
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Division by zero is always wrong, no matter how long/large your integer is.

Post your script and the error you get, that might shed some light on what's going. Your current question is vague at best.
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Division by zero is always wrong, no matter how long/large your integer is.
He is probably not dividing with a real zero. In 99.9% cases people run into
the problem of small divisors. If he can estimate a lower bound on his divisors increasing precision could help. I am just little bit puzzled that he claims to use only integer values. In that case divisor might be a honest zero and he will be screwed up.
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