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"seq -w -1e-3 9" misaligned

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Marcel Böhme <hawkie <at> web.de>
Cc: 12959 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12959: "seq -w -1e-3 9" misaligned
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:58:27 +0000

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

I'll have a look.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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