From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: forcing output type
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:47:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010923164705.A15106@fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010923114054.A16301@dman.com>
Clint Adams wrote:
>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"?
The expression "2/3" is a truncating integer division; its value is
exactly 0. Just as in C, if you want to do a floating-point division
you have to provide floating-point operands.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-23 15:47 UTC|newest]
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2001-09-23 15:40 Clint Adams
2001-09-23 15:47 ` Zefram [this message]
2001-09-23 16:13 ` Clint Adams
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