Re: Bug when dividing a scalar by a vector?

[Marco Caliari]

> On 01/12/2017 10:42 AM, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
> > Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote
> > > My guess is that it is solving the underdetermined equation:
> > >
> > > x1+x2+x3+x4=1.
> > >
> > > So both solutions are correct answers.  There are infinitely many correct
> > > answers.
> > >
> > > If I had to choose, I guess I would go for the answer who square sum is
> > > minimized, which would favor Octave's answer.
> >
> > Thanks! That explains the behaviour and I agree that both solutions do make
> > sense. However, is that documented somewhere? Shouldn't there be a warning?
> > Similar to the case when a singular linear equation system is solved?
>
> For which cases do you want warnings?
>
> Do you want a warning because the particular solution is different from 
> Matlab, or because the system is not square?
>
> Does Matlab always warn when solving least-squares problems?

Dear all,

there was a similar discussion some years ago:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2008-04/msg00160.html

Marco