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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Major and minor ticks artifact
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:52:25 +0100
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On 16.03.2014 01:54, Hermann Peifer wrote:
> On 2014-03-15 23:02, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> To illustrate in a fragment of pseudo-code
>>
>>      ## example range [ 0.0 .. 1.0 ], with inc=0.1
> 
> [...] 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.

The problem with using 0.125 instead of 0.1 is that the former may not be
what the end-user wants to see. After all we are looking at the visible
application domain, not at a pure internal coding domain. Any discrepancy
between those domains must be solved by the programs that implement a task.
And since it's a well-known problem where there existed long time existing
(or long forgotten?) approaches I see no obstacle that couldn't be overcome.

Janis