On Mon May 2 12:07:58 PDT 2016, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > > > file under: awk was really designed for pre-posix unix. :-) > > its not just about awk. whenever you want to convert a string to > a floating point number under plan9 you'll have to deal with this > problem: > > cpu% seq nan > seq 11791387: suicide: sys: fp: invalid operation fppc=0x2635 status=0x8081 > pc=0x0000122f
that seems reasonable to me. what could seq possibly do with nan? - erik
