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st: Re: generating a sequence of numbers in Mata


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: generating a sequence of numbers in Mata
Date   Tue, 2 Oct 2007 06:36:07 -0400

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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