Re: How are numbers printed in gawk?

[arnold]

POSIX awk only supports doubles. Gawk by default doesn't use arbitrary precision
values.  The default is exclusively double precision.

Thanks,

Arnold

Antonio Giovanni Colombo <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> What about:
>
> 16.5 Arbitrary-Precision Integer Arithmetic with gawk
>
> When given the -M option, gawk performs all integer arithmetic using GMP
> arbitrary precision
> integers. Any number that looks like an integer in a source or data file is
> stored
> as an arbitrary-precision integer.
>
> ?
> Antonio
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:24 PM <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Internal to awk, all numbers are considered as double? No numbers are
> > integers?
> >
> > This is clearly documented.
> >
> >
>
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