3.0.2 release (mingw32 check)
Benjamin Lindner
lindnerben at gmx.net
Tue Aug 26 09:50:38 CDT 2008
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?
>
> | 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, and
then the sign of the imaginary part should be a minus, which it is not
(according to the test). So I wondered.
benjmain
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