diff --git a/share/functions/math.fish b/share/functions/math.fish
index a782f7d75..ced85aad4 100644
--- a/share/functions/math.fish
+++ b/share/functions/math.fish
@@ -7,13 +7,8 @@ function math --description "Perform math calculations in bc"
 				return 0
 		end
 
-		# Override the locale so that the output can be used as input
-		set -l LC_NUMERIC C
-		# GNU bc extension
-		set -l BC_LINE_LENGTH 0
-
-		set -l out (printf '%g' (echo $argv| bc -l))
-		test -z "$out"; and return 1
+		set -l out (echo $argv|env BC_LINE_LENGTH=0 bc)
+                test -z "$out"; and return 1
 		echo $out
 		switch $out
 			case 0