Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash and real arithmetic
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:58:57 -0400
Organization: Spirent Communications, Inc.
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <3E970261.6020904@hekimian.com>
References: <32202909248 DOT 20030412000235 AT ngs DOT ru>
Reply-To: jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <32202909248.20030412000235@ngs.ru>
X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0
X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime

Stepan Yakovenko wrote:

>   Is it possible to get for loops working
>   in double arithmetic in bash ? I've got to run
>   a program with a real argument many times, changing it
>   every run by some fixed small (<1) number.
> 
>   Tanx in advance, sorry for my broken English.

ksh93 is nearing release for Cygwin.  It does math with doubles,
and has various optimizations for speed.
-- 
Joe Buehler



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/