From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Math expression evaluation error?
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:55:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112105548.4f70173a@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150109224034.294d4fd6@ntlworld.com>
On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 22:40:34 +0000
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> +Users should beware that, in common with many other programming
> +languages but not software designed for calculation, the evaluation of
> +an expression in zsh is taken a term at a time and promotion of integers
> +to floating point does not occur in terms only containing integers. A
> +typical result of this is that a division such as tt(6/8) is truncated,
> +in this being rounded down to 0. The tt(FORCE_FLOAT) shell option can
> +be used in scripts or functions where floating point evaluation is
> +required throughout.
Before this drifts out of my mind, here's a similar warning for zcalc.
Assuming anybody actually bothers to read the documentation...
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo b/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo
index 5043243..00ede52 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/contrib.yo
@@ -3227,8 +3227,18 @@ A reasonably powerful calculator based on zsh's arithmetic evaluation
facility. The syntax is similar to that of formulae in most programming
languages; see
ifzman(the section `Arithmetic Evaluation' in zmanref(zshmisc))\
-ifnzman(noderef(Arithmetic Evaluation)) for details. The mathematical
-library tt(zsh/mathfunc) will be loaded if it is available; see
+ifnzman(noderef(Arithmetic Evaluation)) for details.
+
+Non-programmers should note that, as in many other programming
+languages, expressions involving only integers (whether constants
+without a `tt(.)', variables containing such constants as strings, or
+variables declared to be integers) are by default evaluated using
+integer arithmetic, which is not how an ordinary desk calculator
+operates. To force floating point operation, pass the option tt(-f);
+see further notes below.
+
+The mathematical library tt(zsh/mathfunc) will be loaded if it is
+available; see
ifzman(the section `The zsh/mathfunc Module' in zmanref(zshmodules))\
ifnzman(noderef(The zsh/mathfunc Module)). The mathematical functions
correspond to the raw system libraries, so trigonometric functions are
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 10:55 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
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 [this message]
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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