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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 2014-03-18 18:38, Karl wrote:
>
> Really looks like a bug resulting from accumulating rounding errors.
> You should file it on
>

One could file (ahem) many bugs related to the FP magic in axis.c, and 
the repeated use of floor() and ceil() functions and other stuff that 
eventually still can't avoid ... rounding errors. The cure is to work 
with integers, as Janis explained in a later mail.

Hermann