Convertion from Exponential to Decimal

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am trying to read values from excel and perform some calculations but I am getting below error:

 
expr 2.326227180240883E7 / 8.509366417956961E8
expr: non-numeric argument

Can anyone let me know how do i convert thse exponential numbers to decimal.

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echo "2.326227180240883E7 / 8.509366417956961E8" |awk -F "/" '{print $1 / $2 }'
0.0273373

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echo "2.326227180240883E7 / 8.509366417956961E8" | bc -l
.27337254808206913239

??? Why wrong answer?
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Ok. "bc" doesn't understand scientific notation. It's for numbers with arbitrary precision.