Re: Bug #1503114

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>>> 2)  BUG 1503114        FIX: 1107709 plot [-1:1] x is plotted with
>>> asymmetric y-axis
>>
>> Floating-point rounding is tricky stuff.  It's completely inevitable
>> that sometimes, results will surprise people.  All this patch does is
>> move the surprise from a seemingly obvious place to a less obvious one.
>>  An axis ending at 2.0000001 has no more business being artificially cut
>> down to 2.0 than one ending at 2.001.
>
> I think it does in some cases, and depends on the range.  I'll illustrate 
> with two ranges determined by the data input.
>
> 2) [-2.0 : 2.0000001]
>
> In the first case, yes definitely, the limits have no business being artificially shrunk.

What about rounding range limits to the nearest "nice value" in a range of
100*MachineEpsilon?

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