From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Nov 14 06:38:09 2001
Subject: Re: 3D array
From: Laurent Jacques <ljacques at fyma dot ucl dot ac dot be>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:36:07 +0100

On Wednesday 14 November 2001 12:56, Laurent Jacques wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:11, adler at freenet dot carleton dot ca wrote:
> > I haven't used N dim arrays in Matlab. For those who have:
> > Is that Matlab implementation well thought out?
> > Or are there inconsistencies and ambiguities (as is
> > fairly common in some of the worse thought out parts of
> > Matlab syntax)?
>
> Well. It seems that in Matlab, the dimensions greater than 2 are extra
> dimensions in the sense that they don't participate to standard algebric
> manipulation.
>
> Here are some very basic examples:
> ===
>
> >> a = eye(3,3);   %% eye(3,3,3) not defined!
> >> a(:,:,1) = eye(3,3);

Of course, this is an error.
It must be a(:,:,2). 
Cut and past problem ;-)
Sorry



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