st: re: generating a sequence of numbers in Mata

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Le Wang wonders why his Mata routine comes up one short some of the  
time. Just the usual finite-precision-arithmetic problem: remember  
that 0.1 is an irrational number in binary, so that adding it up 19  
times does not necessarily give you exactly 1.90. Replace the line  
computing the number of points with

	n=ceil((to-from)/increment) +1 /* Number of points*/

and it should work.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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