From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue May 31 21:24:57 1994
Subject: Re: min, max bugs 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: Ken Neighbors <wkn at leland dot Stanford dot EDU>
cc: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu (Octave Bug)
Date: Tue, 31 May 94 21:24:52 EDT

Ken Neighbors <wkn at leland dot Stanford dot EDU> wrote:

: I have been debugging column_min and column_max in tc-extras.cc, and
: I have a question.

I have recently fixed some bugs in those functions.  You might want to
get the latest snapshot before doing much debugging.

: Why are real numbers differentiated from complex numbers in the case
: statements?  I.e., why not do it all using abs(arg.complex_value ()),
: since you'll get the same answer anyway with less code.  Is it for
: speed?

Generally yes, and in some cases also for savings in memory.  If none
of that mattered, I could have done everything with complex variables
internally.

jwe