[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46859] Error in "for" cycle

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #46859 (project octave):

Michale, I like your idea of showing that the answer isn't exactly an
integer.

Many of the comments below are about the fact that the end-point is not well
defined if floating point is involved.  However, the real puzzle is that
adding integers *much less than the mantissa size* gives a non-integer
result.

Representing 1000 only takes 10 bits, whereas a double should be able to do
integer arithmetic for numbers up to 52 bits without error, shouldn't it?

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