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>>>>> On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Micha³ Górny wrote: |
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> Dnia 2013-08-03, o godz. 17:54:42 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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> napisa³(a): |
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>> This looks just horrible. You do decimal arithmetic on octal |
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>> numbers? |
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> Yes. Bash wasn't really happy to do octal arithmetic for me. Yet in |
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> this particular case, with proper assumptions, decimal arithmetic is |
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> practically equivalent. |
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Do you consider that in future maybe someone else has to maintain that |
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code? IMHO we should avoid such hacks. |
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Why don't you do the calculations in decimal throughout? You can |
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convert to octal (using printf) in the last step. |
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Ulrich |
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