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Re: octave "Most Wanted" feature


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: octave "Most Wanted" feature
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:26:12 +0100
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robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
>> To: "robert bristow-johnson" <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: octave "Most Wanted" feature
>> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:01:22 -0500
>>
>>
>> On 29-Nov-2006, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>>
>> | i dunno why you're adding stride to this.  Arrays already have an implicit
>> | stride which is the length of coulmns for Octave and the length of rows for
>> | MATLAB (since Octave and MATLAB sorta switch the roles of columns and 
>> rows).
>>
>> What do you mean by "sorta switch the roles of columns and rows"?
>>     
>
> i mean in Octave:
>
> octave:1> A = [1 2 3;4 5 6]
> A =
>
>    1   2   3
>    4   5   6
>
> octave:2> A(4)
> ans =  5
>
> but in MATLAB, A(4) would be 4.  also
>
> octave:3> size(A)
> ans =
>
>    2   3
>
> in Octave the inherent stride of this 2-dim array is 2, the first element of 
> the size() vector, in MATLAB it is 3, the second element.
>
> that's all i meant.
>
> --
>
> r b-j                  address@hidden
>
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
>
>
>
>   

Have you checked?

>> version

ans =

7.3.0.298 (R2006b)

>> A = [1 2 3;4 5 6]

A =

     1     2     3
     4     5     6

>> A(4)

ans =

     5

D.

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