Glenn Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:38:23 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:40:43 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote:
> > > > Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > > > floating-point math that it uses bash10 instead of base2 and is needed
> > >                                    ^^^^^^
> > > (maybe you need a break from shell hacking?:)
> 
> > No, I am serious in this case. IEEE 754-2008 supports two _different_
> > floating-point formats:
> 
> I was referring to your bash10 typo for base10, not your proposal

Well... that happens if you do a discussion about updating Solaris's
/usr/bin/bash to bash4.0 (and resulting chain-reactions caused by the
incompatibilties between bash3 and bash4) on IRC and try to write an
email about decimal floating-point in another window at the same time...
:-)

> thanks for the info

No problem... :-)
... do you want any further information ?

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Bye,
Roland

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