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Re: Octave's rand function -- discrepancy between online documentation a


From: Geraint Paul Bevan
Subject: Re: Octave's rand function -- discrepancy between online documentation and function
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:41:59 +0100
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Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:

|
| Having said that, I'm afraid that I have no idea what is causing the
| error that you are getting. I can't reproduce it with Octave 2.1.60 on
| Debian. The fact that 'help rand' says that 'state' is an acceptable
| argument would seem to indicate that octave-forge is installed on your
| machine whereas the error message would seem to indicate that it is not.
|
| What happens if you type 'which rand' at the prompt?
|

I am just wondering if your 'dispatch' function could somehow be broken.
It might be worth having a look at the output of 'whos' after you start
Octave. Does it mention the dispatch dynamically-linked function?

- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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