Re: randn newbie question

[Henry F. Mollet]

[~] tcsh:11> octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.46 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.6).
GnuPlot 3.8, I think.

Your Octave plot does not look correct (not a random distribution of
numbers). I get an octave plot about as expected but did not know that the
plotting would be done with two series of data. See attached pdf.
Henry




on 2/5/05 8:55 AM, Hamish Allan at address@hidden wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Why does:
> 
> plot(randn(2,100)', '+')
> 
> which looks like this in Matlab:
> 
> http://igor.gold.ac.uk/~map01ra/matlab_randn.jpeg
> 
> look like this in Octave:
> 
> http://igor.gold.ac.uk/~map01ra/octave_randn.jpeg
> 
> ???
> 
> Thanks,
> Hamish
> [GNU Octave, version 2.1.64 (powerpc-apple-darwin).]
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.
> 
> Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
> How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
> Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>

Figure_0.pdf
Description: Binary data