Re: floating point arithmetic

[cLIeNUX user]

humbubba@smart.net
>> 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.

Floats is one of the points at which it's time to look into awk or
something.

Rick Hohensee

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