From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Nov 13 21:52:34 1997
Subject: std 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: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 21:53:00 -0600

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

| in std.m, one should replace 'sumsq' with the complex analogue.

Can anyone think of a reason not to change sumsq(x) to compute the
equivalent of sum (x .* conj (x))?  Is that likely to break anything?
The only place this function appears to be used in the M-files
distributed with Octave is in std().

Thanks,

jwe