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Re: bug in seq command?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: bug in seq command? |
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Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:15:00 -0800 |
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"Luis A. Florit" <address@hidden> writes:
> the output of the command: seq -w 1 0.2 4
> is the sequence
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> 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8
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> Why there is no 4.0 in the last sequence?
Floating point roundoff error. It's documented in the manual.
If you can submit a fix, please do! It would improve seq.
(Warning: it won't be trivial.)