Re: [Help-gsl] Doubt (bug?) in gsl_fit_linear function

[John A. Crow]

Take a closer look at your data. It's a vertical line so the slope  will be 
infinite.

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> Hi,
> 
> I am using gsl_fit_linear to fit a straight line through my data samples. 
> Incidentally, I came across a situation when 
> the data samples lie on a vertical line. I observed that in this case 
> gsl_fit_linear returns everything as (nan). Is it a known behavior or there 
> may be something wrong at my end?
> 
> I passed the following data samples to this function:
> {(50, 52), (50, 50), (50, 53), (50, 49), (50, 51)}
>