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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
        "Re: why do ceil/floor give the decimal dot?" (May 15,  2:46am)
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On May 15,  2:46am, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
}
} Note that if you're using zsh's builtin printf, parameters corresponding
} to format specifiers such as %d are automatically evaluated in math
} context. So you can just do:
}   printf '%d\n' 1e20

Well, except that 1e20 is too large to fit in an integer.  Did you mean

    printf '%g\n" 1e20

??