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RE: [heur] Table through zero...strange

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  • Subject: [mg67031] RE: [heur] [mg66988] Table through zero...strange
  • From: "Jaccard Florian" <Florian.Jaccard at he-arc.ch>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:10:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello !

Don't consider it as a problem!
The computer works in basis 2.

So for him : 

liste = Table[x, {x, -0.1, 0, 0.02}];

You can see the liste in basis 2 :

BaseForm[liste, 2]

And you will see that the last number, you expect to be 0, is -1*2^(-58), which is -3.46945 x 10^(-18).

If you don't want to see this details we could consider as enjoying, use Chop:

In[19]:=
Chop[liste]

Out[19]=
{-0.1, -0.08, -0.060000000000000005, -0.04000000000000001, 
  -0.020000000000000004, 0}  


Regards
 
F.Jaccard

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Objet : [heur] [mg66988] Table through zero...strange

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.


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