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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Math expression evaluation error?
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 08:53:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <150110085320.ZM28012@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B0D451.1000502@eastlink.ca>

On Jan 9, 11:27pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
} Subject: Re: Math expression evaluation error?
}
} > 3/8 is not a fraction.
}
} Well, this is one of those things that won't change, but I must say that 
} in my experience an overwhelming majority of people would say that 3/8 
} is a fraction, and they would be surprised

OK, let's leave zsh out of this and try the standard "expr" utility,
which built-in arithmetic was designed to replace:

% expr 3 / 8
0
% expr 3.0 / 8.0
expr: non-numeric argument


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-10 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-09 19:46 jdh
2015-01-09 20:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-09 21:40   ` jdh
2015-01-09 22:19     ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-09 23:06       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-09 23:52         ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-10  0:25           ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-10  7:27             ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-10 16:53               ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-01-10 18:48                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-10 19:14                   ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-10 22:21                     ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-11  1:51                       ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-11  5:10                         ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-12  9:17                           ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-12 16:18                             ` ZyX
2015-01-13 16:00                               ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-13 23:03                                 ` ZyX
2015-01-14 14:47                                   ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14 21:37                                     ` ZyX
2015-01-15 13:34                                       ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-15 13:41                                         ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-15 18:32                                         ` ZyX
2015-01-15 21:57                                           ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-09 22:40     ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-12 10:55       ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-14 15:02       ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-01-14 15:38         ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-15 14:58           ` Peter Stephenson

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