f making seq act as if it were counting in decimal for fractions, instead of binary floating-point, is really something we want to consider, then why don't we actually have seq represent fractions in decimal, internally? Isn't that the only real way we could possibly expect seq to "do what the user expects" in every case?
Possibly, this should be configurable via a flag (especially since doing calculations in decimal would be significantly slower than the current system). I'd be leaning towards requiring a flag in order to do decimal, but of course, that wouldn't save us from having to deal with "why didn't it print 1.9" requests; it would just replace the usual lengthy explanation with a "give the <...> flag to make seq do what you want". -- My 2¢, Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
