Re: Error in `xcorr` (Signal package) "out of memory or dimension too large for Octave's index type"

[Robert T. Short]

On 03/07/2018 08:21 PM, Fabcap77 wrote:
> I do think I need a workaround that doesn't eat up so much memory, then - if
> there's any.
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I think you are creating a 744x744 matrix.  If you want a vector of 744 
elements, try

var = stdnormal_rnd(744,1)

The documentation for this function reads "When called with a single 
size argument, return a square matrix with the dimension specified"