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diff --git a/numpy/add_newdocs.py b/numpy/add_newdocs.py index 14cd2a890..baf5285f0 100644 --- a/numpy/add_newdocs.py +++ b/numpy/add_newdocs.py @@ -860,13 +860,18 @@ add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'arange', `range <http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html>`_ function, but returns a ndarray rather than a list. + When using a non-integer step, such as 0.1, the results will often not + be consistent. It is better to use ``linspace`` for these cases. + Parameters ---------- start : number, optional Start of interval. The interval includes this value. The default start value is 0. stop : number - End of interval. The interval does not include this value. + End of interval. The interval does not include this value, except + in some cases where `step` is not an integer and floating point + round-off affects the length of `out`. step : number, optional Spacing between values. For any output `out`, this is the distance between two adjacent values, ``out[i+1] - out[i]``. The default |