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product of empty vectors
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
product of empty vectors |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2003 16:20:41 -0500 |
On 23-May-2003, Douglas Harder <address@hidden> wrote:
| Octave's handling of empty matrices is a little odd:
|
| >> a = 1:2
| a =
| 1 2
| >> a(1:0)
| ans = []
| >> ans * ans' % this should be 0
| ans = []
| >> ans + 3
| ans = []
The only real problem here is that Octave interprets 1:0 as a 0x0
empty matrix instead of a 1x0 empty matrix. Should we change that?
If you actually generate a 1x0 matrix, the rest works as you expect:
octave:1> x = zeros (1,0)
x = [](1x0)
octave:2> x*x'
ans = 0
Likewise, the indexing works as you expect:
octave:3> a = 1:2
a =
1 2
octave:4> a(x)
ans = [](1x0)
and of course 0+3 == 3.
| Hopefully this wasn't a design decision in Octave to convert all
| empty matrices to 0x0.
No. In fact, Octave had empty matrices with nonzero dimensions before
Matlab.
jwe
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