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The following equation generates singular Sturm-Liouville problems \[ -(py')'+qy=\lambda wy\quad \text{ on} \;I=(a,b), \] with \(-\infty\leq a<b\leq\infty\) and \(p\), \(q\) and \(w\) are real-valued functions on \(I\) satisfying \[ p>0, \;w>0 \;\text{ a.e. \;on } \;I, \;\tfrac 1p, q, w\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(I), \] and either the endpoint \(a\) is singular or the endpoint \(b\) is singular, i.e., either there is no \(c\in I\) such that \({1\over p}, q, w\in L^1(a,c)\) or there is no \(c\in I\) such that \({1\over p}, q, w\in L^1(c,b)\). The authors establish inequalities among the eigenvalues of singular Sturm-Liouville problems whose endpoints are either regular or limit-circle not oscillatory (H. Weyl classification). These inequalities generalize the well-known inequalities among the eigenvalues of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary problems of the regular case, i.e. of the case with \( p>0\), \(w>0\) a.e. on \(I\), \({1\over p}, q, w\in L^1(I)\). Numerical calculations are presented.