Re: A problem with range objects and floating point numbers

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/20/2014 04:28 PM, Julien Bect wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to bring the following bug report to your attention :
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42589
>
> A simple example of the regression described in this report is the
> following :
>
>      octave:1> (9:10) * .1 - 1
>      ans =
>
>         -1.0000e-01    2.7756e-17
>
> The second element should be 0.
>
> Rik thinks that this bug might be hard to solve... which is why I'm
> bringing this up on this list :)

Please see my comments on the bug tracker.

jwe