Re: [SLUG] big numbers

From: John Kiolbasa (john@kiolbasa.net)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 15:08:20 EST


mrock wrote:

> I was wrong. Ashamed I am,, I am running this on RH 7.1,,, When I
> moved it to the RH 8.0 box it ran just fine. Ergo,,, limitation in RH
> 7.1

Found this in the bash FAQ at ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/FAQ

Section B: The latest version

B1) What's new in version 2.05b?

...

Bash-2.05b contains the following new features (see the manual page for
complete descriptions and the CHANGES and NEWS files in the bash-2.05b
distribution):

...

o the shell now performs arithmetic in the largest integer size the
machine supports (intmax_t)

-- 
John Kiolbasa
john@kiolbasa.net
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