Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> I've fixed this (patch forthcoming). I don't think we can do  
> something that always does the "right" thing for floating points  
> though, as
> 
> sage: sum([1.1]*10) < 11
> True
> sage: sum([1.3]*10) > 13
> True
> 
> This is NOT a bug in Sage so much as an artifact of the way computers  
> store floating point numbers. Now, with the decimal literal thing  
> that I was toying with, perhaps we could do accurate sranges anyways.
> 
> - Robert
> 

Yes. That is evident, but in my simple example the endpoint should be
included.

> 
> On Sep 21, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Jaap Spies wrote:
> 
>> The new (fast) srange function with include_endpoint=True
>> dus not include the endpoint in some cases:
>>
>> sage: srange(1.0, 5.0, include_endpoint=True)
>> [1.00000000000000, 2.00000000000000, 3.00000000000000,  
>> 4.00000000000000]
>>
>> Jaap
>>

Jaap


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