diff --git a/miscmaths.cc b/miscmaths.cc
index 675479a93c9380a05da295964f3e1753e629b55b..78b3428ac23c20e9aab317e9f1ecb76bc31a4dd3 100644
--- a/miscmaths.cc
+++ b/miscmaths.cc
@@ -1122,12 +1122,12 @@ mat44 newmat_to_mat44(const Matrix& inmat)
 // Matlab style functions for percentiles, quantiles and median
 // AUG 06 CB
 
-ColumnVector seq(const int num)
+ColumnVector seq(const int size)
 {
-  ColumnVector res(num);
-  for(int ctr =1; ctr<num; ctr++)
-    res(ctr) = ctr;
-  return res;
+  ColumnVector vector(size);
+  for(int i=1; i<=size; i++)
+    vector(i) = i;
+  return vector;
 }
 
 float interp1(const ColumnVector& x, const ColumnVector& y, float xi)