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Re: floating point in zsh?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: floating point in zsh?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 16:20:33 +0100
In-reply-to: "Todd Graham Lewis"'s message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:19:33 NFT." <Pine.LNX.3.96.981201101739.25319I-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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.

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