Re: Table through zero...strange
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- Subject: [mg67012] Re: Table through zero...strange
- From: "ben" <benjamin.friedrich at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:09:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
What's the problem with 10^-18? That's practically zero.
When you use numeric quantities such as 0.1,
you must not worry about round-off errors anyway.
Try Chop[] if you like.
If you do worry about round-off errors, you may prefer
Table[x, {x, -1/10, 0, 2/100}].
Bye
Ben
leptonic schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> When i type in Mathematica (version 4) Table[x, {x, -0.1, 0, 0.02}]
>
> it gives me {-0.1, -0.08, -0.06, -0.04, -0.02, -3.46945 x 10-18]}
> but for example Table[x, {x, -0.1, 0, 0.05}] will give a reasonable
> {-0.1, -0.05, 0.}.
>
> Probably a very stupid question but i can't figure out why the zero
> makes problem.
>
> Thanks for any help.