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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Any reason we can't make it take an actual decimal number, like -M1.0 or 
> -M0.345?  It seems odd and annoying to invent our own notation for 
> floating-point numbers, especially in userspace.

No reason we "can't".  About we "don't", inertia and nothing
else.  It happened around this time.

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111654149421574

We could in addition to take 0 <= x <= 1 decimal number and that
should be a simple patch to diff.c::parse_num().