From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net>, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: floating point in zsh?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 16:20:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9812011520.AA32984@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Todd Graham Lewis"'s message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:19:33 NFT." <Pine.LNX.3.96.981201101739.25319I-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net>
Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> Sorry if this is an FAQ, but how does one do floating point math in zsh?
> Is it possible at all? Do I have to code up some int->fp shell routines?
> 8^)
Nobody has added any support yet. On the other hand, there's no
fundamental difficulty adding a `float' type to go along with
`integer'. I suppose most people use perl when it comes to that.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
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