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Re: [bug-gawk] gawk simple compare not working?
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Andrew J. Schorr |
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Re: [bug-gawk] gawk simple compare not working? |
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Wed, 1 Apr 2015 10:23:43 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:21:48AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> If you use -M, you should probably specify a precision larger than
> the default of 53 which is the same as for double precision hardware
> floating point.
Regarding this: for huge integer values (as in this example), is it necessary
to set PREC to a larger value? My recollection, and some basic testing, seem to
indicate that integers will never lose precision with -M. Am I confused?
-Andy