From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 22 16:18:26 2003
Subject: Re: Trivial 0ctave bug
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Richard E. Borcherds" <reb at Math dot Berkeley dot EDU>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:18:23 -0600

On 22-Jan-2003, Richard E. Borcherds <reb at Math dot Berkeley dot EDU> wrote:

| If you want to keep matlab compatibility, the simplest fix would be to
| change the "help realmin" command: instead of claiming that realmin
| returns the smallest positive representable floating point number, state that
| it ought to do this, but sometimes only gives the smallest positive
| representable *normalized* floating point number due to buggy
| compilers.

Rather than claiming that it is due to buggy compilers, I changed the
doc string to say that it is the smallest normalized floating point
number that is representable.  I think that is consistent with the
meaning of the C constant DBL_MIN.

Thanks,

jwe



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