# Why does scientific notation break the range function?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-scientific-notation-break-the-range-function/80014>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-scientific-notation-break-the-range-function/80014 "2022-04-25T20:46:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 93

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![owiecc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/owiecc/32/8894_2.png) [@owiecc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/owiecc)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-scientific-notation-break-the-range-function/80014/93 "2022-04-29T08:45:42Z")

</div>

> [@chadagreene](#):
>
> Yep, and after that there’s 30 lines of Stacktrace garbage that buries the tiny morsel of the error message that could potentially be helpful.

Let me introduce you to [AbbreviatedStackTraces.jl](https://github.com/BioTurboNick/AbbreviatedStackTraces.jl) It is not in registry yet, so you will need to follow their installation guide.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-scientific-notation-break-the-range-function/80014)._