Count in octal: Difference between revisions

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Note also that if floating point types are used for the counter, loss of precision will prevent the program from from ever reaching the maximum value. If you stretch interpretation of the task wording "maximum value" to mean "maximum value of contiguous integers" then the following will work:

<lang go>import "fmt"

func main() {

for i := 0.; ; {

fmt.Printf("%o\n", int64(i))

/* uncomment to produce example output

if i == 3 {

i = float64(1<<53 - 4) // skip to near the end

fmt.Println("...")

} */

next := i + 1

if next == i {

break

}

i = next

}

}</lang>

Output, with skip uncommented:

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0

1

2

3

...

377777777777777775

377777777777777776

377777777777777777

400000000000000000