From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov  1 11:09:38 1996
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Carl Kreider <carlk at syscon-intl dot com>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:08:41 -0600

On  1-Nov-1996, Carl Kreider <carlk at syscon-intl dot com> wrote:

: Doing the examples on page 14, a \ b does not display numbers.

Here is what happens with my current sources, on an Alpha running
Digital Unix and an i586 Linux system:

  octave:1> a = [ 1, 1, 2; 3, 5, 8; 13, 21, 34 ]; b=rand(3,2);
  octave:2> a\b
  warning: matrix singular to machine precision, rcond = 0
  ans =

     1.63073   1.41884
    -1.37627  -1.19292
     0.25446   0.22592


: It appears that inverse(a) displays the printf specification rather
: than numbers.

Hmm.  This seems to be a Linux-specific (library?) problem.

If you are interested in working with a more recent version of the
Octave sources, a test release of 2.0 is available via anonymous ftp
from ftp.che.wisc.edu in the directory /pub/octave/pre-2.0.

Thanks,

jwe