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Re: How are numbers printed in gawk?


From: Antonio Giovanni Colombo
Subject: Re: How are numbers printed in gawk?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:43:55 +0100

Hi everybody,

What about:

16.5 Arbitrary-Precision Integer Arithmetic with gawk

When given the -M option, gawk performs all integer arithmetic using GMP
arbitrary precision
integers. Any number that looks like an integer in a source or data file is
stored
as an arbitrary-precision integer.

?
Antonio

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:24 PM <address@hidden> wrote:

> Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Internal to awk, all numbers are considered as double? No numbers are
> integers?
>
> This is clearly documented.
>
>

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