[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48995] rand, rande (1.1)

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #48995 (project octave):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

That does not seem to be an error in Octave or Matlab.

For any function that accepts a size argument, the argument is allowed to be a
floating point number, and the truncated integer part is used as the size
value (number of elements, number of columns or rows, etc).


>> size (ones (2.9))
ans =
   2   2
>> size (rand (3.8))
ans =
   3   3


The rand and rande functions take no parameter, only size. But the randg and
randp functions take both a parameter and a size.


>> size (rand (2.2))
ans =
   2   2
>> size (rande (2.2))
ans =
   2   2
>> size (randg (1, 2.2))
ans =
   2   2
>> size (randp (1, 2.2))
ans =
   2   2


The randg doc string seems to be wrong, since it doesn't document the required
parameter. But the behavior is correct.

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