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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex
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Michael Godfrey |
Subject: |
[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex |
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Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:16:39 +0000 |
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Summary: matlab/Octave differences for complex
Project: GNU Octave
Submitted by: godfrey
Submitted on: Wed 05 Jan 2011 06:16:38 AM GMT
Category: Interpreter
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Improvement/Optimization
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: godfrey
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: dev
Operating System: GNU/Linux
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Details:
There are differences between matlab (R2009b) and Octave for
complex variables:
Octave:
octave:18> cc = complex (zeros(2,2), zeros(2,2))
cc =
0 + 0i 0 + 0i
0 + 0i 0 + 0i
octave:20> cc(1,1)
ans = 0
octave:25> whos('cc')
Variables in the current scope:
Attr Name Size Bytes Class
==== ==== ==== ===== =====
cc 2x2 64 double
Total is 4 elements using 64 bytes
===========================================
Matlab:
cc = complex (zeros(2,2), zeros(2,2))
cc =
0 0
0 0
cc(1,1)
ans =
0
whos('cc')
Name Size Bytes Class Attributes
cc 2x2 64 double complex
================================================
Both can be comfusing:
1. cc(1,1) answer appears to indicate double not complex
for both Octave and Matlab.
2. cc answer for Octave seems best. Matlab seems
to indicate double.
Note: the cases above apply only is the imaginary part is
zero.
Output of who('cc') is better from Matlab. The 'attribute'
column is useful, particularly since if the imaginary parts are
all zero the variable appears to be double.
It is not clear how to deal with compatibility in the case.
The "best" change would be to make cc(1,1) show 0 + 0i,
as it does for cc even though matlab does not do this,
and add the correct Attribute column for whos('cc').
If this does not pass the compatibility test, at least make
some changes to make it clearer that a complex variable
with zero value for the imaginary part is actually complex.
This is partly just to have the Matlab/Octave differences
recorded in case this issue comes up again.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex,
Michael Godfrey <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, John W. Eaton, 2011/01/05
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, Michael Godfrey, 2011/01/05
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, John W. Eaton, 2011/01/05
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, Michael Godfrey, 2011/01/06
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, John W. Eaton, 2011/01/06
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, Michael Godfrey, 2011/01/06
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, Jaroslav Hajek, 2011/01/09
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, Michael Godfrey, 2011/01/09
- [Octave-bug-tracker] Re: [bug #32053] matlab/Octave differences for complex, Jaroslav Hajek, 2011/01/11