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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: A good checkbook acct. program (really awk)
Message-ID: <1005@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 10:53:10 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1005
Posted: Sat Feb  8 10:53:10 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 08:16:01 EST
References: <440@drutx.UUCP> <310@isis.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Keywords: awk & floats
Summary: 

In article <310@isis.UUCP> aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:
>a bit later...  What I found was that 'awk' on this system, a Pyramid 90x with
>OSx 2.5, and on a pure 4.2 system also, were using floats for all the real
>values, rather than doubles.  With balances like $12345.67 we were hitting the

awk on SVR2 uses doubles -- from /usr/src/cmd/awk/awk.def:

typedef double awkfloat;

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