Re: e in octave

[james mcskimming]

from what i hear that's a completely understandable position


On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 10:32 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:41:36PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 03:06:29PM +1100, james mcskimming wrote:
> > > i've always accepted that e=exp(1) is a constant available in Octave
> > > just like pi and others.  But i wrote code using e as a constant only to
> > > discover it didn't work when a friend tried to run it on Matlab.
> > 
> > >> e
> > ??? Undefined function or variable 'e'.
> > 
> > >> e^2
> > ??? Undefined function or variable 'e'.
> > 
> > >> version
> > 
> > ans =
> > 
> > 7.1.0.183 (R14) Service Pack 3
> > 
> > 
> > Are you sure e as a value is available in Matlab?
> 
> Okay, I'm lame. I've read James' statement backwards (e is indeed
> available in Octave, but not in Matlab). 
> 
> I'm so used to people complaining about features in Matlab that are not
> in Octave that I don't even realize when it's the other way round.
> 
>       Thomas
>