From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <zsh-users-return-4271-mason-zsh=primenet.com.au@sunsite.dk>
Received: (qmail 25547 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2001 15:41:27 -0000
Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30)
  by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 15:41:27 -0000
Received: (qmail 9143 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2001 15:41:00 -0000
Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
X-No-Archive: yes
X-Seq: 4271
Received: (qmail 9128 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2001 15:40:59 -0000
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:40:54 -0400
From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: forcing output type
Message-ID: <20010923114054.A16301@dman.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

Is there a way to get either

print $(( 2/3 ))

or

float f; (( f = 2/3 )); print $f

to output the equivalent of what would be output
if, for instance, the "2" were replaced by "2.0"?