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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:18:52 -0400
From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
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Subject: Re: forcing output type
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In-Reply-To: <20010923164705.A15106@fysh.org>; from zefram@fysh.org on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:47:05PM +0100

[moved to -workers]

> The expression "2/3" is a truncating integer division; its value is
> exactly 0.  Just as in C, if you want to do a floating-point division
> you have to provide floating-point operands.

Would anyone object to something like $(( [#.] 2/3 )) to
avoid integer truncation?