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* Explain how to do arithmetic

* Update episodes/04-redirection.md

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Co-authored-by: Paul Smith <paul.j.smith@ucl.ac.uk>
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Now you can divide this number by four to get the number of sequences in your fastq file.

This can be done using [shell integer arithmetic](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Arithmetic.html)

```bash
$ echo $((996/4))
```

Note, this will do integer division - if you need floating point arithmetic you can use [bc - an arbitrary precision calculator](https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html)


```bash
$ echo "996/4" | bc
```

```output
249
```

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