[GAP Forum] Strange behaviour with Union - possible bug?

Christopher Jefferson caj21 at st-andrews.ac.uk
Fri Dec 5 21:47:25 GMT 2014


There is indeed a bug here, and one which remains in the current version
it seems. Thanks for reporting it. The bug is in the "JoinRanges" method.
I am investigating further.

Chris

On 05/12/2014 21:58, "Matt Fayers" <m.fayers at qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

>Dear GAP forum,
>
>I am experiencing some strange behaviour with GAP's Union function: the
>command
>
>Union([2],[3],[5,1..1]);
>
>returns
>
>[2,3]
>
>rather than the expected [1,2,3,5].  (If I do
>
>Union([2],[3],[5,1])
>
>or
>
>Union([2],[5,1..1])
>
>the behaviour is as expected.)
>
>Any ideas?  I'm running GAP 4.7.5 on Linux (because that's the version
>that comes with my Linux distribution); I apologise if this has already
>been resolved in a more recent version.
>
>Best wishes,
>Matt Fayers.
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