On Mon May  2 12:07:58 PDT 2016, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
>
> > file under: awk was really designed for pre-posix unix.  :-)
>
> its not just about awk. whenever you want to convert a string to
> a floating point number under plan9 you'll have to deal with this
> problem:
>
> cpu% seq nan
> seq 11791387: suicide: sys: fp: invalid operation fppc=0x2635 status=0x8081 pc=0x0000122f

that seems reasonable to me.  what could seq possibly do with nan?

- erik