From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: arithmetic anomaly
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:59:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <134FF043-EB7D-4E37-A8F3-1A29916C08CD@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e7f2094-9da9-315f-ae08-a6b5cf3eadf6@eastlink.ca>
> On Mar 26, 2021, at 5:45 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2021-03-26 10:09 a.m., Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>>
>> printf '%s %.0f\n' 'zsh (%.0f):' '22.0**22'
>>
> Interesting I was formatting with the same ' %.0f ' but getting the ca. 200 character output. ' %s ' is no improvement.
22^22 is not 200 digits long. We're not talking about the same
input.
% cat /tmp/demo.zsh
python3.9 <<\EOF
print(f"{'Python:':<11} {100**100}")
EOF
printf '%-10s %s\n' 'zsh (%s):' $(( 100.0**100 ))
printf '%s %.0f\n' 'zsh (%.0f):' '100.0**100'
% zsh /tmp/demo.zsh
Python: 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
zsh (%s): 9.9999999999999997e+199
zsh (%.0f): 99999999999999996973312221251036165947450327545502362648241750950346848435554075534196338404706251868027512415973882408182135734368278484639385041047239877871023591066789981811181813306167128854888448
> How do I get her to trim it down?
*it
vq
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-25 15:52 Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 20:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-03-25 22:44 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 22:54 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-25 23:57 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 0:16 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-03-26 0:37 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 10:35 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-26 14:36 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 14:49 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-26 15:35 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 17:09 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-03-26 21:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 21:59 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
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