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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2000-01-02 09:50:15 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2000-01-02 09:50:15 +0000
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sleep accepts arbitrary floating point numbers.
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days
@end table
+Historical implementations of @code{sleep} have required that
+@var{number} be an integer. However, GNU @code{sleep} accepts
+arbitrary floating point numbers.
+
The only options are @samp{--help} and @samp{--version}. @xref{Common
options}.