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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Math Coprocessors
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Date: 13 Nov 90 16:29:03 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1007@apdnm.idca.tds.philips.nl> pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer) writes:
: Awk uses floatig point a lot. I think most programs don't use float arithmetic.

Perl uses floating point a lot too.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov