Re: Total order on floating point numbers


|> 'ed' has exactly such a
|> bug at 32767, which is why it was unsafe to use on system files
|> like /etc/passwd.

I should have said the original 'ed'.

Note that many systems don't use the original 'ed', for precisely
that sort of reason. I don't know how many of them have fixed that
one, as I haven't used it since I discovered that bug.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
.

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