Re: Function problem

[Paul Kienzle]

You probably wnat:

        function y = t(x), y = x.**2; end

The '.' says square each element rather than returning
the matrix product x * x.

- Paul

On Nov 24, 2005, at 8:45 PM, blah BLABBER wrote:

> If I define the following function:
>
>  function t (x)
>  x**2
>  endfunction
>
>  It seems that I cannot multiply this function by a  constant.
>
>  For example:
>
>  Octave:1> 2 * t(4)
>
>  gives an error. The error says: "evaluating binary operator * "
>
>  Can anyone explain why this is ? This does not happen to me with 
> other programs.
>
>  Thanks much.
>
>
>
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