[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32924] lcm does not warn when losing precision

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #24, bug #32924 (project octave):

adding that (a) this still appears to be valid in 5.1.0, as no warnings are
generated by lcm

(b) lcm appears to no longer(?) accept input as given in the example. I
couldn't find an example of matlab lcm accepting input that way either, except
as a shadowed lcm in the symbolic toolbox.

Matlab 2018b:

>> lcm([26:52])
Not enough input arguments.

>> lcm(num2cell(26:52){:})
Error: ()-indexing must appear last in an index expression.
 
>> a = num2cell(26:52);
>> lcm(a{:})
Error using lcm
Too many input arguments.


Octave 5.1.0

>> lcm([26:52])
error: Invalid call to lcm.  Correct usage is:
 -- lcm (X, Y)
 -- lcm (X, Y, ...)

>> lcm(num2cell([26:52]){:})
ans =    2.3971e+25

>> lcm(num2cell([52:-1:26]){:})
ans =    1.1213e+30

>> lcm(num2cell(25:52){:})
ans =    1.1866e+28


so, it's still here, but I can't recreate it in matlab to know if that exact
situation still produces an error/warning.

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