Hi When LAST is equal to 1,000,000 (seq 10000000). I got the outcome as the following. Numbers after 999,999 appears more than once, but not at fixed times. ------------- 999997 999998 999999 1e+06 1e+06 1e+06 1e+06 1e+06 1e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00001e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 1.00002e+06 ------------- #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-22.EL #1 Mon Sep 19 18:20:28 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux #seq --version seq (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Ulrich Drepper.
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