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Re: arithmetic anomaly

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: arithmetic anomaly
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:35:21 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:38 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2021-03-25 5:16 p.m., Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> but floats are what we have.
But why do we let them spew out garbage?

Maybe this will help: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

Understanding how floating point numbers work is very useful. It's virtually mandatory when writing numerical computation code. None of this is specific to zsh.

Roman.

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