Re: Octave

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On 13 Apr 2014, at 21:39, eugenio.pariani <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello
>  
> I’m a beginner in the use of the SW Octave ed. for windows 3.8 and I have a 
> short question which could be related to my no-experience.
> I tried to start introducing this simple command
> 
> >> input (“a number”)
> a number100  (of course 100 was written by me)
> ans = [](0×0)
> >>
> I was expecting (reading the manual):
> >> input (“a number”)
> a number100
> ans = 100
> >>
> Where is my mistake? Would you help me?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Eugenio

I guess you should assign the input value to a variable:

>> a =  input ("a number ")
a number 100
a =  100
>> 

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