title: bash: iterate over list of floating numbers
body: <p>In bash script, I want to iterate over a list of values that I want to pass as parameters to a script in python. It turns out that <code>$d</code> and <code>$minFreq</code> aren't floats when passed to the python script. Why does this happen?</p>
  
  <pre><code>for d in {0.01, 0.05, 0.1}
  do
      for i in {1..3}
      do
          someString=`python scrpt1.py -f myfile --delta $d --counter $i| tail -1`
          for minFreq in {0.01, 0.02}
          do
              for bValue in {10..12}
              do
                  python testNEW.py $someString -d $bValue $minFreq
              done
          done
      done
  done
  </code></pre>