From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 13 04:25:02 1999
Subject: Re: FW: Scalars and Matrices:
From: Mikhail Zotov <mikhail at zeta dot eas dot npi dot msu dot ru>
To: John Day <jday at csihq dot com>
cc: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot psyc dot missouri dot edu>,         help-octave <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:21:57 +0400 (MSD)

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, John Day wrote:

> But MATLAB does have 1x1 matrices! What it doesn't have is
> scalars. Any attempt to enter a "scalar" results in a 1x1 matrix.
> Here's proof: 
> 
> » m = 1
> m =
>      1
> » size(m)
> ans =
>      1     1
> 
> -jday

But what kind of answer would you expect if MATLAB has scalars
(in _your_ treatment)?

Mikhail




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