Re: Bug?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 22/06/2016 08:11, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 23:20:15 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > %d means decimal format not integer
>
> Actually, %d does mean the argument is expected to be an integer.
> However, Matlab has the interesting “feature” that if the argument has
> more precision than the format specifier, then it is formatted as a
> floating point number anyway, overriding whatever you asked for. Octave
> 4.0 and later should do this correctly, see
>
>   http://www.octave.org/NEWS-4.0.html

The manual says differently:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v4.0.1/Formatted-Output.html#XREFprintf

"This example shows the use of the ‘%d’ conversion to specify that a 
scalar argument should be printed in decimal notation"