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Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] arithmetric function int() does not work
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> Coincidentally there is no float() function to turn an integer into
> ksh's equivalent of a long double. The purpose would be to promote the
> variables type to a long double (typeset -lE) so that integer x=1;
> $((float(x)/3)) yields 0.33333333333333333333333333333
>
> Tina
> --
You can do
$((x/3.))
which will convert x to floating point and then do the division.
David Korn
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