Pad infinity and negative infinity values with spaces when using the
`-w` option to `seq`. This corrects the behavior of `seq` to match that
of the GNU version:
$ seq -w 1.000 inf inf | head -n 4
1.000
inf
inf
inf
Previously, it incorrectly padded with 0s instead of spaces.
* seq: use BigDecimal to represent floats
Use `BigDecimal` to represent arbitrary precision floats in order to
prevent numerical precision issues when iterating over a sequence of
numbers. This commit makes several changes at once to accomplish this
goal.
First, it creates a new struct, `PreciseNumber`, that is responsible for
storing not only the number itself but also the number of digits (both
integer and decimal) needed to display it. This information is collected
at the time of parsing the number, which lives in the new
`numberparse.rs` module.
Second, it uses the `BigDecimal` struct to store arbitrary precision
floating point numbers instead of the previous `f64` primitive
type. This protects against issues of numerical precision when
repeatedly accumulating a very small increment.
Third, since neither the `BigDecimal` nor `BigInt` types have a
representation of infinity, minus infinity, minus zero, or NaN, we add
the `ExtendedBigDecimal` and `ExtendedBigInt` enumerations which extend
the basic types with these concepts.
* fixup! seq: use BigDecimal to represent floats
* fixup! seq: use BigDecimal to represent floats
* fixup! seq: use BigDecimal to represent floats
* fixup! seq: use BigDecimal to represent floats
* fixup! seq: use BigDecimal to represent floats
GNU rm allows the `-r` flag to be specified multiple times, but
uutils/coreutils would previously exit with an error.
I encountered this while attempting to run `make clean` on the
Postgres source tree (github.com/postgres/postgres).
Updates #1663.
Replace two loops that print leading and trailing 0s when printing a
number in fixed-width mode with a single call to `write!()` with the
appropriate formatting parameters.
Ensure that the `print_seq_integers()` function is called when the first
number and the increment are integers, regardless of the type of the
last value specified.
Change the way `seq` computes the number of digits needed to print a
number so that it works for inputs given in scientific notation.
Specifically, this commit parses the input string to determine whether
it is an integer, a float in decimal notation, or a float in scientific
notation, and then computes the number of integral digits and the number
of fractional digits based on that. This also supports floating point
negative zero, expressed in both decimal and scientific notation.
