From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Oct 26 16:32:41 1999
Subject: Range of linspace needlessly restricted.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bruce Walzer <bwalzer at lark dot gawd dot mb dot ca>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:31:48 -0500 (CDT)

On 25-Oct-1999, Bruce Walzer <bwalzer at lark dot gawd dot mb dot ca> wrote:

| To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
| Cc: bwalzer
| Subject: Range of linspace needlessly restricted.
| 
| Bug report for Octave 2.0.14 configured for i386-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| This might be a difference of opinion but I figured I'd pass it along
| anyway. Here's what happens with matlab ver 5.3.0.10183 (R11).
| 
| >> linspace(1,0,0)
| 
| ans =
| 
|      0

This makes no sense to me.  You are asking for 0 points, but one is
returned.  That looks like a bug, or at least a very strange design.

| >> linspace(1,1,1)
| 
| ans =
| 
|      1

OK, I'll go along with this.  Asking for one point when both endpoints
are the same makes sense.  I've fixed it in the development sources.

jwe



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