Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check)

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 26-Aug-2008, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>
> | I can follow your argumentation, but why does (-i) have a real part of 
> | (-0) and simultaneously (-1) has a imaginary part of (0) (without the 
> | sign) ?
>
> -1 is stored as a real number only.  There is no imaginary part.
>
> | The above test expects mat2str([-1/3]) to result in "-0.3333+0i".
> | Isn't this inconsistent?
>
> Yes.

Considered a bug?

> | 1/3 is represented as (1/3,0) and negating it should then yield 
> | (-1/3,-0). This is what puzzled me about this test.
>
> We do have pure real numbers.  1/3 is not stored as (1/3, 0).  It has
> no imaginary part.

This I know, but obviously -1/3 is expanded to a complex number, and 
then the sign of the imaginary part should be a minus, which it is not 
(according to the test). So I wondered.

benjmain