From help-octave-request  Wed Feb 17 02:58:29 1993
Subject: Re: programming question 
From: John Eaton <jwe>
To: bardo at ief-paris-sud dot fr (Bardo Muller)
Cc: help-octave
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 02:58:24 CST

On Tue, 16 Feb 93 17:44:32 +0100, bardo at ief-paris-sud dot fr (Bardo Muller) wrote:

: I am about to adapt a little matlab routine to octave code.
: So far it doesn't complain, but it is not running either..

: ab=x\ydata;  # here it complains about non-quare matrix

With Matlab, this would solve a least-squares problem if x isn't
square.  This simply hasn't been implemented in Octave yet.  Maybe by
0.69, certainly by 1.0.

jwe