From help-request at octave dot org Sun Oct 31 08:10:18 2004
Subject: Re: sqrt(1:4)(1:2:4) -> 1.0000  1.4142  1.7321  2.0000
From: "Joseph C. Slater" <joseph dot slater at wright dot edu>
To: help at octave dot org
Cc: etienne at cs dot uky dot edu
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:08:08 -0500


On Oct 29, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Etienne Grossmann wrote:

>
>   Hi all,
>
> I'm using 2.1.57. Is this the usual/desired behavior? I have the
> feeling that it used to be that lines 17, 19 and 20 below would all
> give the same result, that of line 20.
>
>   Cheers,
>
>   Etienne
>
> octave:17> sqrt(1:4)(1:2:4)
> ans =
>
>   1.0000  1.4142  1.7321  2.0000
>

This result bothered me, so I tried it myself and got the following:
 >> sqrt(1:4)(1:2:4)
ans =

   1.00000  1.73205

Same version of Octave.  Peculiar that you wouldn't get the same.
Joe


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