[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#471273: Bug#471273: Section 14.1.4: Rational Approximations

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Sun Apr 13 16:05:52 UTC 2008


On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Thomas Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this message seems to have never made it to the list. Resending.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> -----
>
> From: Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:41:05 +1100
> To: octave-maintainers at octave.org
> Cc: 471273 at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#471273: Section 14.1.4: Rational
> 	Approximations
> Organization: The Debian Project
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> Reply-To: dparsons at debian.org, 471273 at bugs.debian.org
>
> Hello Octave Maintainers,
>
> I've noticed that in the octave documentation section 14.1.4  
> documented
> a pair of functions used to generate rational approximations.
>
> Section 14 concerns Input and Output and Sect 14.1 is for Basic Input
> and Output, so it looked to me that Sect 14.1.4 had got misplaced
> somehow.
>
> After raising the matter with the Debian octave maintainers, we  
> figured
> the Rational Approximations were probably in that Section because they
> can be used as an option to the format() function, Sec 14.1.1.
>
> I'm bringing the question to you then, to confirm if you really do  
> want
> to confine these functions to output only, or whether they have any
> other broader uses that might warrant placing them in some other  
> section
> (e.g. Number Theory) ?
>
> Regards,
> Drew Parsons

I can't find anything that resembles what is described in the current  
manual.

	http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/

Specifically what is the pair of functions? ... are they among expm,  
logm, sqrtm, kron, and syl?

If so, it appears the problem has been resolved.

	http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Functions-of-a-Matrix.html

If not, please let the list know what the names of the pair of  
functions would be.

Ben









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