From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: why do ceil/floor give the decimal dot?
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:14:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14C892AF-61F9-4FEE-832C-0AD196669182@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87siay262s.fsf@debian.uxu>
On May 14, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> I like the solution better to have the types all
> floats (or whatever) and then use printf to make it
> look the way you want.
You should use %g then (with appropriate precision) because %d does an
implicit conversion.
% printf '%d\n' $(( 1e20 ))
-9223372036854775808
% printf '%g\n' $(( 1e20 ))
1e+20
% printf '%.30g\n' $(( 1e20 ))
100000000000000000000
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-14 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-14 0:32 Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14 2:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-14 3:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14 3:53 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-05-14 9:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-14 21:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14 22:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2015-05-14 23:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-15 0:46 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-05-15 1:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-15 1:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-18 8:16 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-05-14 4:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-14 9:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14 17:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-18 8:39 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-05-18 9:41 ` Mikael Magnusson
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