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Re: floating point arithmetic
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: floating point arithmetic |
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Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:46:55 -0500 |
> The bash manual should state just how far one can get using floating
> point arithmetic within the bash shell.
Why? You cannot use floating point at all.
The man page says, in the ARITHMETIC EVALUATION section:
Evaluation is done in long
integers with no check for overflow, though division by 0
is trapped and flagged as an error
The info manual says exactly the same thing.
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