How to get decimal value from divide in fish shell

Question

math 5/2 returns 2.

I want 2.5 -- how do I get decimal values?

Answer 1

You can "force" math to return fractions by default -- use the -l option to bc:

$ math 5/2
2

$ function bc
      command bc -l $argv
  end

$ math 5/2
2.50000000000000000000