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Re: rounding weirdness



On the other hand, ...

zsh-% echo $[13.50 + 6.99]
20.490000000000002

zsh-% zcalc
1> 13.50 + 6.99
20.49
2>


On Nov 16, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Atom Smasher wrote:

i'm seeing this on several boxes:
	% echo $[13.50 + 6.99]
	20.490000000000002

Linux 2.6.26.6	zsh=4.3.4
FreeBSD 4.7	zsh=4.2.1
FreeBSD 6.2	zsh=4.3.6

i don't recall seeing that type of error before. is that normal?


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