From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: arithmetic anomaly
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:35:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpq2ECpWkFt5mAO1rwCGp0Q+UYCxnPr5kT6fReXhycSZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb16b987-9521-e2b7-3bbc-8b71677b913c@eastlink.ca>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:38 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> On 2021-03-25 5:16 p.m., Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > but floats are what we have.
> But why do we let them spew out garbage?
>
Maybe this will help:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
Understanding how floating point numbers work is very useful. It's
virtually mandatory when writing numerical computation code. None of this
is specific to zsh.
Roman.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 10:36 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 [this message]
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
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