Re: Matlab logical test case

[fgnievinski]

Juan Pablo Carbajal-2 wrote
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
> <

> ajuanpi+dev@

> > wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Rik <

> rik@

> > wrote:
>>> x = [-1, 0, i]
>>> logical (x)
>> ??? Error using ==> logical
>> Complex values cannot be converted to logicals.
> 
> Now, I would ask why... any nonempty is true...why sqrt(-1) would not be
> true...
> octave --brain-death

maybe because a complex value could be argued to have two logical solutions,
one for each real and imaginary parts, as each can be nonzero independently
from the other part.
-F.



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