Re: Question about Range class

[Henry F. Mollet]

[~] -bash-2.05b 501$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.71 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0).
octave:1> z = (1:100)/10;
octave:2> Z = (1:0.1:10);
octave:3> max(abs(z-Z))
error: operator -: nonconformant arguments (op1 is 1x100, op2 is 1x91)
error: evaluating binary operator `-' near line 3, column 10
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
octave:3> whos

  Prot Name            Size                     Bytes  Class
  ==== ====            ====                     =====  =====
   rwd Z               1x91                        24  range
   rw- __nargin__      1x1                          8  scalar
   rwd z               1x100                      800  matrix

Z and z have different sizes in my octave version.
Henry

on 11/25/05 9:40 AM, Miroslaw Kwasniak at address@hidden wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:24:00AM -0800, Robert A. Macy wrote:
>> Pedro,
>> 
>> In octave, two arguments...
>>  z = (1:100)/10
>         ^
>         10 
>> or, three arguments...
>>  Z = (1:0.1:10)
>> ...give identical z arrays,
> 
> No, it's almost impossible
> 
> max(abs(z-Z))
> ans =  1.7764e-15
> 
> ;)
> 
> 
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