From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb  1 20:37:35 2001
Subject: Re: ISO C++ and Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:37:29 -0600

On  1-Feb-2001, Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU> wrote:

| Speaking of Sun Workshop, I get the following:
|   
|   octave> sqrt (-1)
|   ans = 6.1232e-17 + 1.0000e+00i
| 
| Obviously this doesn't tests like ``sqrt (-1) == 1i'' and tests fail.
| 
|   octave> eps
|   2.2204e-16
| 
| Ideas?

Nope.  That looks pretty bad.  Sort of like

  octave:6> sin (pi)
  ans =  1.2246e-16

(would it really hurt to make this a special case?).

jwe