Depending on the settings of your PC this line with printf could return invalid number because a decimal fraction is not always represented with a . but with a , instead.
Putting LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" sets the locale for numbers to en_US.UTF-8 (which uses the . of course) for the script only.
Axarva
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Depending on the settings of your PC this line with printf could return
invalid numberbecause a decimal fraction is not always represented with a.but with a,instead. PuttingLC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"sets the locale for numbers to en_US.UTF-8 (which uses the.of course) for the script only.See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12845997/printf-command-inside-a-script-returns-invalid-number