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working with floating points in AWK
Hi! I am trying to make a program, for which I need high precision. My problem is that I do not understand how AWK is working, I mean: echo 1.00001E-6 | awk -v FS=" " -v D=0 'D=D+$1 {printf("%.12g\n",D)}' 1.00001e-06 (I obtain this result from %.06g to %.17g) but: echo 1.00001E-6 | awk -v...
