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From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu>
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Subject: Re: Major and minor ticks artifact
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On 2014-03-15 23:02, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> You would better iterate over an _integer_ range, the number
> of tics[**] - this is also the value that you already have available, BTW -,
> and multiply for every tic the counted integer number with the FP increment.
> To illustrate in a fragment of pseudo-code
>
>      ## example range [ 0.0 .. 1.0 ], with inc=0.1

Thanks for explaining and illustrating the issue. Increments of 0.1 are 
indeed a pain. People should simply change their thinking and coding to 
inc=0.125, or apply the integer method you described.

Hermann