e in octave

[Brian Curtis]

exp(1) works in both octave and matlab, so I would suggest sticking with
that

~Brian

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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:06 PM, james mcskimming <jasmc at people.net.au>wrote:

> i've always accepted that e=exp(1) is a constant available in Octave
> just like pi and others.  But i wrote code using e as a constant only to
> discover it didn't work when a friend tried to run it on Matlab.
> I've never used Matlab but assumed there would be compatability at such
> a basic level.
> Is there a reason why? and other than defining the variable e=exp(1) in
> code for Matlab, is there a better way?
> thx
> Jas
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