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row vectors changed to column vectors?
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
row vectors changed to column vectors? |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:17:13 -0600 |
On 10-Feb-2004, Christian T. Steigies <address@hidden> wrote:
| I wrote a little function to generate maximum length pseudo random
| sequences, the function returns a vector. I am doing some matrix
| multiplication with this vector and notice that in octave 2.1.50 the vector
| is treated as row vector, whereas in 2.1.53 it is treated as a column
| vector. Simple example:
|
| octave:1> a(1)=1
| a = 1
| octave:2> a(2)=2
| a =
|
| 1
| 2
|
| octave:3> version
| ans = 2.1.50
| octave:4> [nr,nc]=size(a)
| nr = 2
| nc = 1
|
|
| octave:1> a(1)=1
| a = 1
| octave:2> a(2)=2
| a =
|
| 1 2
|
| octave:3> version
| ans = 2.1.53
| octave:4> [nr,nc]=size(a)
| nr = 1
| nc = 2
|
| Is this expected behaviour and if so is it going to stay that way? A quick
| search didn't show anything in the changelog, but maybe I was looking for
| the wrong thing.
Yes, this change is permanent, for compatibility with Matlab. In the
past, you could use the built-in variable prefer_column_vectors to
choose what Octave would do for things like
clear a; a(1)=1; a(2)=2
but now Octave will only do the Matlab-compatible thing and create row
vectors.
Other than the potential compatibility problems, the existence of a
variable like prefer_column_vectors made it harder to write code that
would work no matter which preference other users might have. So it
was best to eliminate the variable.
BTW, if you are creating vectors by doing things like
clear a;
for i = 1:N
a(i) = something();
end
then you should probably rethink your method, because this type of
loop the vector A to be resized N times, which will be slow.
jwe
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- row vectors changed to column vectors?, Christian T. Steigies, 2004/02/10
- row vectors changed to column vectors?,
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Jonathan Stickel, 2004/02/10
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Christoph Dalitz, 2004/02/10
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Przemek Klosowski, 2004/02/10
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Christian T. Steigies, 2004/02/11
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Henry F. Mollet, 2004/02/11
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Paul Kienzle, 2004/02/10
- Re: row vectors changed to column vectors?, Andy Adler, 2004/02/11