On Sun, Sep 21, 2025, at 9:30 PM, pourko--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:00:15 -0400 Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> > About 0.30000000000000004 and about 0.16999999999999993... >> > I am thinking, who really needs a 17 decimal digits long significand? >> >> It's as long as it needs to be. > > Some people would argue that 4 significant figures are enough. > And you know, they have a point! :-) > > https://germanna.edu/sites/default/files/2022-03/Significant%20Figure%20Rules.pdf
In this context they do not have a point. >> > About --help... >> > I found out what most of the functions are, and I realize that mentioning >> > them in the --help text would be impossible -- the list is HUGE. So, maybe >> > a simple URL there? >> >> A URL to what? > > A URL to a web page. Something like this one... > (NOTE: I am NOT saying *this one*, I am just giving an example of a web page.) > > https://sourceware.org/newlib/libm.html You want Chet to create and maintain a web page documenting a toy command that some distros don't even ship? -- vq
