From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Nov 11 13:24:31 1997
Subject: format bank inc. for complex numbers
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Dr. G. Buerger" <buerger at pik-potsdam dot de>
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:24:55 -0600

On 11-Nov-1997, Dr. G. Buerger <buerger at pik-potsdam dot de> wrote:

| I think the following is incorrect:
| 
| octave(1131)> format short
| octave(1132)> a=sqrt(-1)
| 0 + 1i
| octave(1133)> format bank 
| octave(1134)> a=sqrt(-1)
| 0.00

It's Matlab-compatible (at least with version 4.2).  Can anyone tell
me if Matlab 5.x does this differently?

Thanks,

jwe