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Re: Integer and floating point types
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Jaroslav Hajek |
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Re: Integer and floating point types |
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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:47:43 +0100 |
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:57 AM, George <address@hidden> wrote:
> When we have integer data, wouldn't be more efficient to multiply them
> directly rather than have to convert to float? Octave doesn't
> implement operations between integer types.
Octave defines the element-wise operations (+, -, .*, ./, .^). Matrix
operations are not defined, because it's more efficient to go through
doubles.
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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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