Re: Table through zero...strange
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- Subject: [mg67017] Re: [mg66988] Table through zero...strange
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:09:24 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:27 AM, 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.
It's a precision problem from using machine precision numbers, if
it's a problem you can use exact values:
Table[x,{x,-1/10,0,1/50}]
Regards,
Ssezi
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- Table through zero...strange
- From: "leptonic" <leptonic@gmx.ch>
- Table through zero...strange