Welcome to the world of floating point accuracy.
This little program typically ends within 100 iterations for me:
$ 6 'my int $a = 0; $a++ while (1..^(1+10e-15)).rand < 1+10e-15; say $a’
96
Either we dismiss this bug as being caused by lack of floating point accuracy,
or we build in something
Welcome to the world of floating point accuracy.
This little program typically ends within 100 iterations for me:
$ 6 'my int $a = 0; $a++ while (1..^(1+10e-15)).rand < 1+10e-15; say $a’
96
Either we dismiss this bug as being caused by lack of floating point accuracy,
or we build in something
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See the following result
$ perl6 -e '(1..^(1+10e-15)).rand.say'
1.01
$
