Re: strange bug?
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- Subject: [mg79201] Re: strange bug?
- From: dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:20:00 -0400 (EDT)
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On 20 , 11:05, dimitris <dimmec... at yahoo.com> wrote: > On 19 , 10:42, "Jeremy Price" <cfga... at u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > I think I've found a bug in mathematica 5.2, > > > In[418]:= > > $Version > > > Out[418]= > > 5.2 for Microsoft Windows (June 20, 2005) > > > When I run, eg, > > > In[416]:= IntegerPart[10*5.1] > > > Out[416]= 51 > > > I get what I expect. But when I run the same thing in a loop, > > > For[n = 1, n < 20, n = n + .1, > > Print[n, " ", IntegerPart[10*n]] > > ] > > > I get output like: > > > >From In[415]:= 4.2 42 > > >From In[415]:=4.3 43 > > >From In[415]:=4.4 44 > > >From In[415]:=4.5 45 > > >From In[415]:=4.6 46 > > >From In[415]:=4.7 47 > > >From In[415]:=4.8 48 > > >From In[415]:=4.9 48 > > >From In[415]:=5. 49 > > >From In[415]:=5.1 50 > > >From In[415]:=5.2 51 > > > Any idea what's going on here or how to fix it? > > What exactly do you want to get from In[415]? > > Perhaps? > > For[n = 1, n < 20, n = n + .1, > Print[ " ", IntegerPart[10*n]] ] > > BTW, why don't you avoid loops? > > (IntegerPart[10*#1] & ) /@ Range[1, 10, 0.1] > Print[#]&/@%; > > D.S.A.- - > > - - I didn't realize what was your problem1 Use For[n = 1, n < 20, n = n + 1/10, Print[N[n], " ", IntegerPart[10*n]] ] Or better ({N[#1], IntegerPart[10*#1]} & ) /@ Range[1, 10, 1/10]; Print[#[[1]]," ",#[[2]]]&/@%; D.S.A.