From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Nov 23 22:53:06 1999
Subject: erfinv hangs for ever for one input
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Yu Di <ydi at eecs dot uic dot edu>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:53:45 -0600 (CST)

On 23-Nov-1999, Yu Di <ydi at eecs dot uic dot edu> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.14 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
|   When erfinv is invoked with
|         "erfinv(2*487/501-1)"
|   , it will hang for ever without producing any output.
| 
|   However, if it is invoked with
|         "erfinv(473/501)"
|   , which is just the same, it will give the result "1.3519".

You can find an improved version of erfinv.m here:

  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/bug-octave/1999/285

jwe



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