diff --git a/src/base/blas_uninit.rs b/src/base/blas_uninit.rs
index 8f05dd193..5da5c2bc1 100644
--- a/src/base/blas_uninit.rs
+++ b/src/base/blas_uninit.rs
@@ -108,14 +108,26 @@ pub unsafe fn axcpy_uninit<Status, T, D1: Dim, D2: Dim, SA, SB>(
         let y = y.data.as_mut_slice_unchecked();
         let x = x.data.as_slice_unchecked();
 
+        let xlen = number_of_elements(x.len(), rstride2);
+
         if !b.is_zero() {
-            array_axcpy(status, y, a, x, c, b, rstride1, rstride2, x.len());
+            array_axcpy(status, y, a, x, c, b, rstride1, rstride2, xlen);
         } else {
-            array_axc(status, y, a, x, c, rstride1, rstride2, x.len());
+            array_axc(status, y, a, x, c, rstride1, rstride2, xlen);
         }
     }
 }
 
+fn number_of_elements(len: usize, stride: usize) -> usize {
+    if len == 0 {
+        0
+    } else if len % stride == 0 {
+        len / stride
+    } else {
+        len / stride + 1
+    }
+}
+
 /// Computes `y = alpha * a * x + beta * y`, where `a` is a matrix, `x` a vector, and
 /// `alpha, beta` two scalars.
 ///
@@ -331,3 +343,36 @@ pub unsafe fn gemm_uninit<
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use super::*;
+    #[test]
+    fn number_of_elements_test() {
+        assert_eq!(number_of_elements(0, 0), 0);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+#[cfg(feature = "proptest-support")]
+mod blas_proptest {
+    use super::*;
+    use proptest::{prop_assert, proptest};
+
+    proptest! {
+    #[test]
+    fn number_of_elements_proptest(len in 0..1024usize, stride in 1..32usize) {
+        let predicted_num = number_of_elements(len, stride);
+        println!("{}", predicted_num);
+        // last element must be inside the length
+        if predicted_num == 0 {
+        prop_assert!(len == 0);
+        } else {
+        prop_assert!((predicted_num-1) * stride < len);
+        }
+
+        // element after that must be outside the length
+        prop_assert!(predicted_num * stride >= len);
+    }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/core/blas.rs b/tests/core/blas.rs
index 2c3ca6df3..42d0ded0b 100644
--- a/tests/core/blas.rs
+++ b/tests/core/blas.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use na::{Matrix2, Vector3, geometry::Quaternion};
+use na::{Matrix, Matrix2, U2, Vector3, geometry::Quaternion};
 use num_traits::{One, Zero};
 
 #[test]
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ fn gemm_noncommutative() {
     assert_eq!(res, Matrix2::zero());
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn array_axcpy_nonstandard_stride() {
+    let matrix_a = Matrix::<_, U2, U2, _>::from_slice_with_strides(&[0, 0, 0, 0], 2, 1);
+    let matrix_b = Matrix::<_, U2, U2, _>::from_slice_with_strides(&[0, 0, 0, 0], 2, 1);
+    let res = matrix_b * matrix_a;
+    assert_eq!(res, Matrix2::zero());
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "proptest-support")]
 mod blas_proptest {
     use crate::proptest::{PROPTEST_F64, PROPTEST_MATRIX_DIM};