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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: why do ceil/floor give the decimal dot?
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 02:46:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27767.1431650762@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14C892AF-61F9-4FEE-832C-0AD196669182@larryv.me>

Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> 
>     % printf '%d\n' $(( 1e20 ))
>     -9223372036854775808

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

It doesn't achieve much here but in some cases, this could avoid losing
precision.

Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-15  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14  0:32 Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14  2:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-14  3:29   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14  3:53     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-05-14  9:53       ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-14 21:38         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14 22:14           ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-05-14 23:29             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-15  0:46             ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2015-05-15  1:07               ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-15  1:27               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-18  8:16             ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-05-14  4:04     ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-14  9:12       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-14 17:54         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-18  8:39           ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-05-18  9:41             ` Mikael Magnusson

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