On 11/22/2012 10:58 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 10:49 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While the output of (1) "seq -w -1e-2 9" prints the width as expected, the output of (2) "seq -w -1e-3 9" does not:
>>   (1) vs. (2)
>> -0.01 | -0.001
>> 00.99 | 0.999
>> 01.99 | 1.999
>> 02.99 | 2.999
>> 03.99 | 3.999
>> 04.99 | 4.999
>> 05.99 | 5.999
>> 06.99 | 6.999
>> 07.99 | 7.999
>> 08.99 | 8.999
>>
>> Similarly, see "seq -w -1e2 -98" vs. "seq -w -1e3 -998".
>>
>> Can you kindly confirm that the bug was introduced 4 years ago in the following commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=86e4b778b148bdd82395fdc312ce8d937f303e33
>
> Confirmed:
>
> $ ~/git/coreutils/src/seq -w -1e-3 1
> -0.001
> 0.999
>
> $ ~/git/coreutils/src/seq -w -.001 1
> -0.001
> 00.999

The attached should fix this.

thanks,
Pádraig.