set-face-attribute :height gacks on floating-point

[Eric Hanchrow]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I typed

        M-: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 1.1) RET

and saw an error:

        set-face-attribute: Invalid face height: 1.1

However, the documentation for set-face-attribute says:

    `:height'

    VALUE must be either an integer specifying the height of the font to use
    in 1/10 pt, a floating point number specifying the amount by which to
    scale any underlying face, or a function, which is called with the old
    height (from the underlying face), and should return the new height.

... so I expected my current font to get 10% bigger.

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