It does do floating point. Although, by default bc shows the results of calculations as integers. However, that can be changed either by setting scale or by invoking it with the -l option:

    $ bc

    5/2
    2

    scale=4

    5/2
    2.5000


    $ bc -l

    5/2
    2.50000000000000000000
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John.