From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Wed Jun 29 06:26:48 1994
Subject: octave for linux
From: matthew at redbird dot umsl dot edu (Matthew Feldt)
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 06:26:39 -0500 (CDT)

I have picked up your binary distribution of octave-1.0 for linux and
am confused about some results I have seen.  If you could offer insight
to the following results or need more information please contact me at
the e-mail address below.

Thanks for your assistance.

Sample octave session:

octave:1> a = [ 1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
a =

  1  2  3
  4  5  6
  7  8  9

octave:2> det(a)
ans =  -9.5171e-16

octave:3> inverse(a)
ans =

  3152211905965405  -6304423811930810  3152211905965405
  -6304423811930813  12608847623861622  -6304423811930811
  3152211905965407  -6304423811930811  3152211905965406


ps. if a = [ 1 2; 3 4 ], det(a) returns the proper result. 
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