On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 4:08 PM Robert Elz wrote:
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> That's a perfect case for scaled integers - no-one ever deals with
> fractions of cents in this kind of thing (a bank won't ever tell you
> that your balance is $5678.17426 for example, even if the interest
> calculations computed accurately mig
Le 06/06/2024 à 11:55, Koichi Murase écrivait :
Though, I see your point. It is inconvenient that we cannot pass the
results of arithmetic evaluations to the `printf' builtin. This
appears to be an issue of the printf builtin. I think the `printf'
builtin should be extended to interpret both for
2024年6月6日(木) 18:09 Léa Gris :
> Le 06/06/2024 à 10:29, Koichi Murase écrivait :
> > 2024年6月6日(木) 15:59 Léa Gris :
> >> Le 05/06/2024 à 17:09, Koichi Murase écrivait :
> >>> 2024年6月5日(水) 21:41 Zachary Santer :
> Bash could potentially detect floating point literals within
> arithmetic expa
Le 06/06/2024 à 10:29, Koichi Murase écrivait :
2024年6月6日(木) 15:59 Léa Gris :
Le 05/06/2024 à 17:09, Koichi Murase écrivait :
2024年6月5日(水) 21:41 Zachary Santer :
Bash could potentially detect floating point literals within
arithmetic expansions and adjust the operations to use floating point
m
2024年6月6日(木) 15:59 Léa Gris :
> Le 05/06/2024 à 17:09, Koichi Murase écrivait :
> > 2024年6月5日(水) 21:41 Zachary Santer :
> >> Bash could potentially detect floating point literals within
> >> arithmetic expansions and adjust the operations to use floating point
> >> math in that case. [...]
> >
> >
Le 05/06/2024 à 17:09, Greg Wooledge écrivait :
On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 09:57:26PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
Also note that to actually put floating support in the shell, more is
needed than just arithmetic, you also need floating comparisons in test
(or in bash, in [[ ) and a whole bunch more od
