[Numpy-discussion] numpy.arange() error?

[Eric Firing]

On 02/08/2012 09:31 PM, teomat wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Am I wrong or the numpy.arange() function is not correct 100%?
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> Try to do this:
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> In [7]: len(np.arange(3.1, 4.9, 0.1))
> Out[7]: 18
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> In [8]: len(np.arange(8.1, 9.9, 0.1))
> Out[8]: 19
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> I would expect the same result for each command.

Not after more experience with the wonders of floating point! 
Nice-looking decimal numbers often have long, drawn-out, inexact 
floating point (base 2) representations.  That leads to exactly this 
sort of problem.

numpy.linspace is provided to help get around some of these surprises; 
or you can use an integer sequence and then scale and shift it.

Eric

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> All the best
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