I have a file that stores 7 numbers in double. See below. But its size is only 34 bytes. Shouldn’t it be 7*8 = 56 bytes instead? Answer The file contains text representations of the numbers (e.g. written out as digits with a decimal point and a newline separator) rather than as IEEE-754 floating point n…
Tag: floating-point
bash printf not working – decimals [closed]
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Comparing two numbers but if condition does not work correctly
i am new to bash script. I am making a script to calculate cpu usage. So what I am doing is calculating cpu usage and comparing with a predefined value i.e threshold value. But my if condition is always going wrong. Please help me to correct my script. Please do check the above script in bash beacause I have …
Use of floating point in the Linux kernel
I am reading Robert Love’s “Linux Kernel Development”, and I came across the following passage: No (Easy) Use of Floating Point When a user-space process uses floating-point instructions, the kernel manages the transition from integer to floating point mode. What the kernel has to do when us…