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Re: handling NaN
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John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: handling NaN |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:28:43 -0500 |
On 8-Aug-2002, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
| Since we don't have integers, we don't need NA_INTEGER. The only
| compelling reason I can see for adding integers would be if they
| were 8 bit integers so that we use them to represent large images.
But it might be useful to support the data types that Matlab has
{u,}int{8,16,32} both for compatibility and to save storage for things
that have limited range. But I think Octave should convert these
objects to double precision to do numeric operations.
jwe
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