Re: Table through zero...strange
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- Subject: [mg67040] Re: Table through zero...strange
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello,
what you are seeing is the result of floating point arithmetic, that is
inheremtly inaccurate. Look at:
Table[x,{x,-0.1,0,0.02}] //FullForm
and
Table[x,{x,-0.4,0,0.05}] //FullForm
For this reason, it is usually better to use Integer arithmetics for the
iterator. E.g.:
Table[-0.1 + i 0.02, {i, 0, 5}]
This gives what you want.
leptonic wrote:
> 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.
>