On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:28 AM, ObsessiveMathsFreak
<[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a simple question, but I can't find anything in the
> documentation about it.
>
> I would like to declare a simple arithmetic sequence in sage. I use
> this a lot for discrete plots, etc. In octave, syntax such as
> [0:0.1:1] returns the sequence
>
> 0.0   0.2  0.4  0.6   0.8   1.0
>
> Is there such a shorthand syntax for these kinds of sequences in sage?


srange is what you want:
sage: srange(0, 1, 0.2)
[0.000000000000000, 0.200000000000000, 0.400000000000000,
0.600000000000000, 0.800000000000000]
Type srange? for more details on the syntax.


> I know about the shorthand [1..10] for integers, but this does not
> seem to work for general arithmetic sequences. The range() function
> also will not work correctly with non integer steps.
>
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