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Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check)
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John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check) |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:54:21 -0400 |
On 26-Aug-2008, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 26-Aug-2008, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
| >
| > | I can follow your argumentation, but why does (-i) have a real part of
| > | (-0) and simultaneously (-1) has a imaginary part of (0) (without the
| > | sign) ?
| >
| > -1 is stored as a real number only. There is no imaginary part.
| >
| > | The above test expects mat2str([-1/3]) to result in "-0.3333+0i".
| > | Isn't this inconsistent?
| >
| > Yes.
|
| Considered a bug?
I would guess most people would say no.
| > | 1/3 is represented as (1/3,0) and negating it should then yield
| > | (-1/3,-0). This is what puzzled me about this test.
| >
| > We do have pure real numbers. 1/3 is not stored as (1/3, 0). It has
| > no imaginary part.
|
| This I know, but obviously -1/3 is expanded to a complex number,
I don't follow. When are you thinking it is "epxanded to a complex number"?
jwe
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- Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check), Benjamin Lindner, 2008/08/26
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- Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check), Benjamin Lindner, 2008/08/26
- Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check), John W. Eaton, 2008/08/26
- Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check), Benjamin Lindner, 2008/08/26
- Re: 3.0.2 release (mingw32 check), John W. Eaton, 2008/08/26
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