Re: invalid range

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 1, 2013, at 9:33 PM, asha g wrote:

> > I get this error even when I do the following :
> > 
> > 
> > octave3.2:1> niter = 1: 15360000000
> > error: invalid range
> > 
> > 
> > Asha G 
> 
> You're asking Octave to create a vector with 15.36 G elements.  You'll need 
> 64bit addressing for that.
> 
> How can I do that ? 
> asha G 

You'll need to build octave, and include the option "--enable-64" when you run 
configure.

Before doing that, do have you enough RAM for a double vector of length = 
15.36G?  You'll need 122.88 GBytes of RAM just for your vector. 

Ben