Re: Fw: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#471273: Section 14.1.4: Rational Approximations

[dbateman]

Thomas Weber-8 wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that in the octave documentation section 14.1.4 documented
> a pair of functions used to generate rational approximations.
> 
> Section 14 concerns Input and Output and Sect 14.1 is for Basic Input
> and Output, so it looked to me that Sect 14.1.4 had got misplaced
> somehow.
> 
> After raising the matter with the Debian octave maintainers, we figured
> the Rational Approximations were probably in that Section because they
> can be used as an option to the format() function, Sec 14.1.1.
> 

Good guess, that is exactly what I thought when I placed them there.



> I'm bringing the question to you then, to confirm if you really do want
> to confine these functions to output only, or whether they have any
> other broader uses that might warrant placing them in some other section
> (e.g. Number Theory) ?
> 

Sure, perhaps but where? Frankly I don't see another good place for them
otherwise, and I'd rather not see a chapter of the manual created for two
functions. Where would you suggest they go?

D.

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