Uniform partition of an interval

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-May-2000, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| Hello! 
| 
| What is the MAIN reason that 1.8:0.05:1.9 produces [1.8000 1.8500]
| and not [1.8000 1.8500 1.9000]? 
| I am using 2.0.14 version of Octave. 
| Thank you for your answer. 
| Best regards,
| Emil Zagar

I'd guess that the MAIN reason is that there is a bug in the way
Octave is trying (very hard) to compute the correct number of elements
for ranges.  If you're in a debugging mood, the code to look at is in
the Range::nelem_internal and related functions in liboctave/Range.cc.

jwe

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