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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting floating point number problem Post 302421221 by fpmurphy on Thursday 13th of May 2010 10:27:12 PM
Old 05-13-2010
I am not quite sure what you are actually asking but I hazard a guess that it involves rounding. The following example shows you how to handle rounding using printf.
Code:
echo "4.444 4.445 4.446" | awk '{printf "%.2f %.2f %.2f\n", $1, $2, $3}'
4.44 4.45 4.45

This works with any number of decimals places in the format string, e.g.
Code:
echo "4.4 4.5 4.6" | awk '{printf "%.0f %.0f %.0f\n", $1, $2, $3}'
4 4 5

 

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FEGETROUND(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     FEGETROUND(3)

NAME
fegetround, fesetround -- functions providing access to the floating-point rounding mode. SYNOPSIS
#include <fenv.h> #pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON int fegetround(void); int fesetround(int round); DESCRIPTION
These functions provide control of floating-point rounding direction modes. The fegetround() function gets the current rounding direction. It returns the value of the rounding direction macro representing the current rounding direction, or a negative value if either there is no corresponding macro or if the rounding direction is not determinable. The fesetround() function sets the rounding direction to be that specified by the argument round. If the argument is not equal to the value of one of the rounding direction macros, the rounding direction is not changed. It returns zero if and only if the requested rounding direc- tion was established. SEE ALSO
fenv(3), feclearexcept(3), fegetenv(3), fegetexceptflag(3), feholdexcept(3), fesetenv(3), feraiseexcept(3), fesetexceptflag(3), feraiseexcept(3), feupdateenv(3) STANDARDS
These functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:TC3. BSD
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