From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 27 09:44:47 2005
Subject: Re: median fails for scalar input
From: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
To: "Hall, Benjamin" <benjamin dot hall at pw dot utc dot com>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:46:09 +0100

Hall, Benjamin wrote:

>Starting with octave 2.1.60, it appears that the median function fails when
>given a scalar input
>
>median(3)
>error: median: invalid matrix argument
>
>A one character fix would be:
>
>*** median.m	2005-01-27 08:47:54.000000000 -0500
>--- orig/median.m	2005-01-27 08:46:46.000000000 -0500
>***************
>*** 61,67 ****
>  
>    sz = size (a);
>    s = sort (a, dim);
>!   if (numel (a) > 0)
>      if (numel (a) == sz(dim))
>        if (rem (sz(dim), 2) == 0)
>  	i = sz(dim) / 2;
>--- 61,67 ----
>  
>    sz = size (a);
>    s = sort (a, dim);
>!   if (numel (a) > 1)
>      if (numel (a) == sz(dim))
>        if (rem (sz(dim), 2) == 0)
>  	i = sz(dim) / 2;
>
>  
>

My fault, though this has been there since 2.1.58 :-)

D.

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