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Re:Re: seq bug? LAST equals 1,000,000


From: db_23
Subject: Re:Re: seq bug? LAST equals 1,000,000
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:47:42 +0800 (CST)

Hi Bob, Eric
Thank you for your replies.

>db_23?wrote:
>>?When?LAST?is?equal?to?1,000,000?(seq?10000000).?I?got?the?outcome?as

This is my fault. It should be 10,000,000. 

>>?the?following.?Numbers?after?999,999?appears?more?than?once,?but?not
>>?at?fixed?times.
>
>Thank?you?for?the?report.??Unfortunately?seq?uses?floating?point
>numbers?internally.??This?has?caused?some?problems?in?the?resulting
>implementation.
>
>>?999997
>>?999998
>>?999999
>>?1e+06
>>?1e+06
>>?1e+06
>
>I?can?reproduce?your?problem?on?seq?5.97?in?an?old?Debian?Etch
>machine.??However?your?seq?5.2.1?was?released?in?2004?and?now?five
>years?later?there?have?been?many?improvements?and?bug?fixes?applied
>since?then.??So?I?think?upstream?this?has?already?been?fixed?in?later
>versions?for?some?time.

I will upgrade seq to the latest version. Thank you again.

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