Differences between Octave and Matlab on division (/) operator with scalar and vector

[José Luis García Pallero]

Hello:

Using this variables:

a = 2;
b = [1 2 3];

For the operation a/b or 2/b or b/2 I obtain an error in Octave and
Matlab due to wrong dimensions. But if I declare b as a vector column
as b=[1 2 3]' I obtain in Octave:

>> a/b
ans =

   0.14286   0.28571   0.42857

and in Matlab:

>> a/b

ans =

         0         0    0.6667

What is the reason of this difference? Why the operation is legal with
b as column vector and illegal with row vector?

Thanks

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