Re: [bug-gawk] Tiny bug in the documentation

[arnold]

Hi.

Thank you for taking the time to send in a bug report. I took a look; the
text is correct as written. The idea is that up to a certain range, adding
and subtracting one works correctly. Beyond a certain point, with floating
point numbers, it actually doesn't work.

Thanks,

Arnold

Vicente David Canto Casasola <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is the correct place for a doc issue, but I wasn't able 
> to find anywhere else.
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> I've reading the current gawk's documentation at 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html.
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> I've found that a minus sign could have been missing in section 6.2.4 
> Increment and Decrement Operators,
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> just at the end of the third paragraph: where it says
> But the difference is minute as long as you stick to numbers that are fairly 
> small (less than 10^12).,
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> should it be less than 10^-12?
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> Thanks so much for your attention and dedication,
>
>
> Vicente
>
> The GNU Awk User?s Guide<https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html>
> www.gnu.org
> Foreword to the Third Edition. Arnold Robbins and I are good friends. We were 
> introduced in 1990 by circumstances?and our favorite programming language, 
> AWK.
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