Re: Issue with Sum Version7
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- Subject: [mg95647] Re: Issue with Sum Version7
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:10:18 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
- References: <gl9nan$b2k$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
this is a bug but:
Sum[i, {i, 0, 100000, 1/10}]
may work as well as
Sum[i, {i, 0, 100000, 0.1}] //N
Regards
Jens
bghekaya at gmail.com wrote:
> Anyone seen this:
>
>
> In[120]:=
> Sum[i, {i, 0, 99999, .1}]
>
> Out[120]= 4.99991*10^10
>
> In[121]:=
> Sum[i, {i, 0, 100000, .1}]
>
> Out[121]= Sum[i, {i, 0, 100000, 0.1}]
>
> On Mac OS X 10.5.6
>
> Brian
>