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From: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: floating point output
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:36:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> typed:
: I just noticed:
: (( A = 1.2e12 ))
: print $A
: prints `1200000000000', with no decimal point.
...
:                                                               This might
: simply be an effect of the Solaris sprintf() implementation.
...

Presumably.  Just for general interest sake, from my Zsh built the
day before this patch (on non-Solaris):

% (( A = 1.2e12 ))
% print $A
1200000000000.0000000000
% (( A = 1.0000 ))
% print $A
1.0000000000

Regards,
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