st: Re: generating a sequence of numbers in Mata

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

I looked for the built-in function before answering this question,  
but could not find it. But Le Wang need not write his own;

help mata range()
help mata rangen()

Thanks to Ben Jann for pointing that out.

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


On Oct 2, 2007, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> 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.
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