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Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

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Subject Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix
Date Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:47:08 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Jeremy Townshend wrote:
> In the meantime it would seem cautionary to advise against the pitfall of
> using base# prefixed to variables (contrary to
> mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression) unless you can be confident that
> they will never be decremented below zero.

Fair point.  I've updated <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression>
and <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls>.

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Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-17 11:47 -0400

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