“…This notion arose as a modification of the Bass's concept of the stable range of rings (see [2, p. 498]). Examples of rings of stable range 1.5 are Euclidean rings, principal ideal rings, factorial rings, rings of algebraic integers, rings of integer analytic functions, and adequate rings (see [3,4] and [10, p. 21]). Note that the commutative rings of stable range 1.5 coincide with rings of almost stable range 1 (see [1,8]).…”