From help-octave-request  Mon Jul 12 16:32:05 1993
Subject: Re: Octave version 0.73 released
From: ian at calvin dot ds dot boeing dot com (Ian Searle)
To: jwe
Cc: help-octave
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 14:31:45 -0700

   Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 19:32:04 EDT
   From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
   Sender: help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu

   Octave version 0.73 is now available for ftp from ftp.che.utexas.edu
   in the directory /pub/octave.  Compressed and gzipped tar files are
   available, as are diffs relative to version 0.72.

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     * The right and left division operators `/' and `\' will now find a
       minimum norm solution if the system is not square, or if the
       coefficient matrix is singular.
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Isn't this different from MATLAB. I thought the MATLAB solution to the
underdetermined system has zero columns corresponding to the dependent
rows (or something like that).

What is the Octave policy regarding MATLAB feature compliance ?

-ian