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Review use of numpy.arange() to define t array
Same dt in both cases, The last element is supposed not to be inclusive, Why in the first case works and in the second doesn't? Any idea?
In [16]: dt = 0.005
In [17]: t1=numpy.arange(0, 50.005, dt)
In [18]: t1[-1]
Out[18]: 50.0
In [19]: t2=numpy.arange(0, 10.005, dt)
In [20]: t2[-1]
Out[20]: 10.005000000000001
According to numpy.arange documentation:
For floating point arguments, the length of the result is ceil((stop - start)/step). Because of floating point overflow, this rule may result in the last element of out being greater than stop.
caso a) numpy.ceil((stop - start)/dt) returns 10001.0
caso b) numpy.ceil((stop - start)/dt) returns 2002.0