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Subtract floating numbers in shell script

I'm trying to do some calculation in shell script with CPU usage. Which return floating point number. But when I subtract this number I'm getting error. See the following code and error. Code #!/bin/...
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Hexadecimal number sequence checker in Linux?

I have a list of hexadecimal number. I would like to check whether they are in sequence or not. That is, they should be consecutive numbers, in increasing order. In other words, there should be an ...
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case + how to implement equal or less or greater in case syntax

My target is to verify a range of number with (only with case + esac), and print the range. So for example: If the number is between 0 and 80, print >=0<=80 If the number is between 81 and 100 ...
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Error when subtracting two negative numbers in ksh: "assignment requires lvalue"

I am trying to debug someone else's script: The code line is: y=$((${oldvalue[$x]}-${newvalue[$x]})) y gets calculated fine as long as both sides are positive numbers. However, I have a production ...
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