Re: foo=${(z)${(s:.:)SECONDS}} ; echo ${foo[1]}.${(r:2:)foo[2]}

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Aargh.  OK.  The *precision*, in the sense that the floating point 
> number comes out with so many digits, is indeed 10.  However, the 
> *accuracy* is 6 digits.  That's because when it's floating point SECONDS 
> uses a microsecond timer.  That's what I should be saying in the manual.
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hehe... yeah, after reading that i did a quick review of the difference 
between "accuracy" and "precision", and came away from it no less 
confused.


> >    typeset -F 2 SECONDS
>
> is still the, er, right answer to the question you asked.
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holy crap!! that's slick!! (the deeper i dig with zsh the more i hear 
myself saying that.)

thanks also to Angel Olivera for getting me to the right section of the 
man-page for back references, which i was completely overlooking before.



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