From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 23 02:37:06 2003
Subject: Re: Trivial 0ctave bug
From: Mirek Kwasniak <mirek at zind dot ikem dot pwr dot wroc dot pl>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "Richard E. Borcherds" <reb at Math dot Berkeley dot EDU>,    bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:36:11 +0100

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:15:30PM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> BTW, Matlab also seems to behave this way, so any fix is likely to
> break compatibility.

Yes we have compatibility, in fuctions rem, mod remainder can be greater
then divisor :)

In a message:
  http://groups.google.pl/groups?selm=eeb79a1.-1%40WebX.raydaftYaTP

 In MATLAB version 6.1 and 6.5,


 >> rem(3.0782817340933185e+099,1e7)
 ans =
     4.856672230564323e+083
 >> mod(3.0782817340933185e+099,1e7)
 ans =
     4.856672230564323e+083


$ octave2.1
GNU Octave, version 2.1.43 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
octave2.1:1> rem(3.0782817340933185e+099,1e7)
ans =  4.8567e+83

Mirek



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