[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55208] Incorrect information in documentation, fix and suggestion

[Ridge McGhee]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55208>

                 Summary: Incorrect information in documentation, fix and
suggestion
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: ridgemcghee
            Submitted on: Tue 11 Dec 2018 08:15:23 PM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Ridge McGhee
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.1
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

In Section 4.1 Matrices, under "fixed_point_format", the following text
appears:


logspace (1, 7, 5)'
ans =

  1.0e+07  *

  0.00000
  0.00003
  0.00100
  0.03162
  1.00000

Notice that the first value appears to be 0 when it is actually 1. Because of
the possibility for confusion you should be careful about enabling
fixed_point_format.


1. The first value is actually 10, not 1.
2. Suggested addition to the paragraph above:


For further clarification, try the following:

fixed_point_format(1);
output_precision(10);
logspace(1, 7, 5)'

fixed_point_format(0);
output_precision(5);
logspace(1, 7, 5)'






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