a nasty error

[Peter Holzer]

Dear R-developers

The basic function seq doesn't work properly:

> seq(1,6,by=3)
[1] 1 4 7

Looking at the source code of seq.default I found that strange fuzz thing
"+ 0.4". Taking that away the seq works fine.

My question is: Why has this fuzz thing been added?

If it was for some rounding problems I would suggest to replace "0.4" by
something much smaller.

Peter
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