From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Feb  7 09:40:52 2005
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in complex division by zero
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
CC: bug at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:43:27 -0700

David Bateman wrote:
> There is an inconsistency in the division by zero between octave and 
> matlab. Consider 1i/0 that returns "NaN - NaNi" for octave and "NaN 
> -Infi" for matlab. The Matlab return value makes much more sense that 
> the octave one as it treats the real and imaginary parts separately.. 
> Tested against octave 2.1.64 and matlab 7.0sp1.
> 

I think the result depends on gcc version used. 
It may also be related to the gcc bug:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18902

> Regards
> David
> 

Regards,

Dmitri.
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