Bug#1079105: coreutils: printf "%.8f" outputs huge random looking number when read from a variable

[Jakob Haufe]

Are you sure this is in coreutils and not in bash?

To me, this seems to be the same bug as 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078556

Cheers,
sur5r

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