Re: variable precision arithmetic (vpa) errant results in windows 10, octave-4.0.1

[Colin Macdonald]

On 22/06/16 11:26, Reik Reid wrote:
> If vpa() behaved the same way as sym(), would leaving out the quotes be
> safe for all cases of constant numerical expressions? Is that a
> desirable behavior?

There is a relatively small set of values were its safe to leave off the 
quotes, for both sym and vpa.  That set is "small" integers, inf, nan, 
and pi.  The latter just for convenience (might have been a bad idea).