A few weeks ago I was doing a

#while(inc<=1)
#local inc=inc+some_small_increment
#end

loop for an animation in which I was making loops from 0 to 1.0. where 1 is
evenly divisible by some_small_increment divide

I spent about two hours trying to figure out why my loop was coming up one item
short.

I realize now that it was coming up short since inc never actually equals 1, but
somethine closer to 0.9999999999.

I eventually solved my probelem by scaling everything by 1,000 and changin the
#while(inc<=1)

to

#while(inc<=1000)
#local inc=inc+some_other_larger_increment
#end

I'm assuming there is a perfectly legit reason as to why this was happening
(having to do whith floating point precision) but Is there anyway to get around
this?

If this does not seem legit please let me know, and I will upload source into
someother forum for explanation or bug-fixing purposes.

-Jeff

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