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Old 08-26-2008
Indalecio Indalecio is offline
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Annoying rounding issue in awk
Hello
I am getting this very annoying issue in awk:


Code:
awk '{a=12825;b=a*1.25; print b}' test
16031.2

Thing is the multiplication result is wrong... Result should be 16031.25.
I think the issue only happens on bigger numbers.

What can I do to get passed this?
Thanks by advance