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Re: GAWK adding big numbers wrong
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: GAWK adding big numbers wrong |
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Sun, 12 May 2002 23:03:17 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 01:29:38 +0300
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> You have hit a limitation in hardware floating point. Gawk uses
> double precision floating point numbers. I suggest that if you need
> infinite precision, you use dc or bc.
Other possibilities include Scheme, (recent versions of) Python,
Ruby, and other high-level languages like that.
It would be nice if Gawk implemented infinite-precision arithmetic,
though admittedly this would require some surgery.