Re: GNU octave for windows help

[Shai Ayal]

I'm guessing you typed the following line:

octave:1> a = [ 1, 1, 2; 3, 5, 8; 13, 21, 34 ]

while you should of have left the octave prompt alone and typed:

a = [ 1, 1, 2; 3, 5, 8; 13, 21, 34 ]

Shai


Hayden Rampadarath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the GNU octave 2.1.36 for windows.
> Since i am new to Octave, i decided to follow the manual, in the section 
> 1.2 Simple examples the comand
> octave:1> a = [ 1, 1, 2; 3, 5, 8; 13, 21, 34 ] was asked to be typed.
> Upon entering I got the following messages
> error: invalid lvalue function called in expression
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 13
> Could you please help me out here?
>
> Thanks
> Hayden
>
>
> --
> Hayden Rampadarath
> Physics Department
> University of the West Indies
> St. Augustine, Trinidad
> 868-662-2002-2652



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------