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Subject: Re: inconsistent for() and while() behavior when using floating point
From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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On 15 Jan 2018, at 14:49, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote:
>=20
> The "seq" utility should use two 64-bit integers to represent the =
10-base decimal number instead of float/double. And then you need to =
step this pair of integers.

As the saying goes:

> Sometimes, people think 'I have a problem and I will solve it with =
floating point values' and then they have 1.99999999 problems.


David