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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zcal bug
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:05:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130318160550.14b4c1e1@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514738F4.8050001@sergio.spb.ru>

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:55:32 +0400
sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru> wrote:
> > printf %g format.
> 
> Sorry, I confused it with %f.

I have to say it confused *me* working out what a sensible default was.
You really want something like a really calculator does, but that's (I
suppose, I don't know what the firmware looks like) presumably taking
some arbitrary number of significant figures that they've worked out
will be correct for the precision used internally.  For a slightly more
general purpose programmer's tool like zcalc, sticking with the standard
formats available seemed a more obvious thing to do.  %g looked like the
least worst option.

pws


      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-18 15:06 sergio
2013-03-18 15:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-03-18 15:42   ` Peter Stephenson
2013-03-18 15:55   ` sergio
2013-03-18 16:05     ` Peter Stephenson [this message]

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