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What does {-1 floatTo: 1 by: 0.125} do?

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I saw this Smalltalk in the example warpBy: as OutValues of IOCharacteristic and wondered how it is different to a regular (-1 to: 1 by 0.125) ?
asked Jan 21 in Capytalk & Smalltalk by cristian-vogel (Master) (8,410 points)

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to:by: can sometimes leave off the final number due to Floating point precision limits. We created floatTo:by: to solve that problem.

 

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