[Bug 90419] Accuracy of calculation in Fill

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90419

--- Comment #4 from Jaskaran Singh <jvsg1303 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #1)
> While generally all floating point numbers that are not exactly
> representable in an IEEE 754 double lose precision, this specific case of
> filling a series of numbers could be improved by using multiplication
> instead of incrementing (adding delta) values.
> 
> Actually this shouldn't be too hard to solve, I'm creating an EasyHack of
> this.
> Code pointer is sc/source/core/data/table4.cxx ScTable::Fill() and
> subroutines.

How would multiplication result in incrementing the value? And how would that
result in less error?Any Mathematical clues would be nice. And also , how to
reproduce this bug?

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