Re: A problem with range objects and floating point numbers

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 18:27 -0700, s.jo wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote
> > 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
> 
> I have the similar problem with octave 3.8.1 on cygwin.

That's expected. Did you apply the patch from the bug report above?

- Jordi G. H.