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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: why do ceil/floor give the decimal dot?
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Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 02:46:02 +0200
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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