On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:38 AM Ray Andrews 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.