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floating point problem. newbie
When I run this simple awk program i'm getting confusing results. Why in the 3rd execution awk is always printing 0? $ gawk '{ printf("%10.6f %10.6f %10.6f\n",$1,$2,$1-$2)}' 3,6 3,6 3,600000 3,600000 0,000000 3,5 3,0 3,500000 3,000000 0,500000 0,6 0,3 0,000000 0,000000...
