determinant of integer values

[Peter Lempel Søndergaard]

Dear list,

the following code

A=[1 0; 1 12];
det(A)

produces:

ans = 12.000

instead of the better result ans = 12 .

I am using Fedora 4 with the lastest rpms installed, Octave 2.1.72 and
Octave-forge.

This is slightly annoying, because gcd will not work with 12.000, so I
have to round the number. Matlab gets this one correctly.

Cheers,

Peter




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