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Re: variable precision arithmetic (vpa) errant results in windows 10, o
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reik red |
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Re: variable precision arithmetic (vpa) errant results in windows 10, octave-4.0.1 |
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Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:55:14 -0700 |
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Thank you for your insights and for writing vpa() and sym() and probably a ton
of other stuff hat I have not seen yet.
On 06/22/16 14:34, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> 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?
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> 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).
>