From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov  7 05:35:54 1997
Subject: Arithmetic Problems
From: Beng Tiong Tan <beng at vocalis dot com>
To: Octave Help <help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 11:35:40 +0000

Hi,

I am a new user of Octave. It is a very nice piece of software.

I encounter one problems. The following are what happen in Octave:

    octave: 241> 4777.2^2
    ans = %.-3f

Is thsi a bug?

Beng


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