Re: Unidentified subject!

[Doug Stewart]

Matlab has on problem with this   -- so is Octave broke????

EDU» acosh(-7.2718e+15 + 1.3382e+15i)

ans =

  0.3466- 2.3562i

EDU»

Doug Stewart


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> Good afternoon,
>
> I've got a problem calculating "acosh". I have to calculate cosh^(-1) of a very
> large complex number (-7.2718e+15 + 1.3382e+15i). If I try to calculate the
> value of acosh on the command line of octave, the result is "Inf". If I've got
> the same in a script, the script apparently uses this "result" for further
> calculations and   I'm very suspicious about the output from this script. Is
> there a limit for the value that one can use when evaluating acosh???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hana. 
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