diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 052ce9c..abd9a5d 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 0.3.13
+####  version: 0.3.14
 ####  Date: November 3 2008
 ########################################################################
 ####  inxi is a fork of infobash, the original bash sys info script by locsmif
@@ -1287,7 +1287,12 @@ calculate_multicore_data()
 		string_data=" $( awk '{print $2}' <<< $1 )" # add a space for output
 		string_number=$( awk '{print $1}' <<< $1 )
 	fi
-	string_number=$( echo $string_number $2 | awk '{total = $1*$2; print total}' )
+	# handle weird error cases where it's not a number
+	if [ -n "$( egrep '^[0-9\.,]+$' <<< $string_number )" ];then
+		string_number=$( echo $string_number $2 | awk '{total = $1*$2; print total}' )
+	else
+		string_number="Error: string_number=$string_number "
+	fi
 	echo "$string_number$string_data"
 }