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diag incompat. with MATLAB
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John W. Eaton |
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diag incompat. with MATLAB |
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Mon, 13 May 1996 09:14:41 -0500 |
Eyal Doron <address@hidden> wrote:
: Anybody come across this?
:
: Matlab 4.0:
:
: >>diag(eye(3))
: ans =
: 1
: 1
: 1
:
: Octave 1.1.1 :
:
: octave:3> diag(eye(3))
: ans =
:
: 1 1 1
The result depends on the value of prefer_column_vectors.
Sometimes Matlab likes to create row vectors (for example, with
commands like clear x; for i = 1:3 x(i) = i; end) and sometimes it
insists on columns (things like x(:)). I suppose this is Yet Another
Special Case...
jwe