From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jan 18 08:48:09 1999
Subject: a few things
From: "April G Gruhn" <gudongfe at pilot dot msu dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:48:15 -0600 (CST)

Got octave to compile on NetBSD after acouple reinstalls. I think ther is
a problem with Makefile.in or ./config. Anyway, how/where do I upload my
binary package for NetBSD so others may download it?

On change I think you should make:

eye (n) ---> id (n)

In APL "id n" is a common function for obtaining an nxn Identity Matrix.
One more special matrix I think you should add:
Jaynes Matrix (after E. T. Jaynes)
Looks like this:
[0 a -b; -a 0 c; b -c 0]
multiply this by the column vector  xyz and you get the cross product
of abc x xyz. Beats screwing with determinants! Its in a Quantum Mechanics
text book py Powell and Craseman in the chapter on Linear Algebra.
 Has anyone written a device driver for an i860 board? You could do
some serious linear modeling if you have one! Plus F90 does matrices,
although we APL programmers find the syntax too restrictive.
See ya.
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