Yeah every invocation of bc is a call to a command. So if you do it in a loop, its going to be very slow. I had to do this once. It was so slow, I decided to u

Yeah every invocation of bc is a call to a command. So if you do it in a loop, its going to be very slow. I had to do this once. It was so slow, I decided to use integers in kind of fixed-point math where I just multiply all the floats by 100 and work with ints. zsh supports float though