Re: puzzling Octave behaviour

[Tom Holroyd]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:

> Id probably be bothered about ltmps() & ltest are behaving ok
> before pointing fingers elsewhere, and also why you forgot
> to post the output of ltmps too.

The real problem is that testing doubles for equality doesn't 
work very well. It doesn't have anything to do with Octave, it's 
just a property of the floating point representation that 
computers use. You need to test to see if the numbers are close, 
within some tolerance, like (a - b) < 1e-10, instead of a == b.