2012/2/17 Alois Schloegl <alois.schlo...@ist.ac.at>: > On 02/16/2012 01:52 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> I think it's ok to change the meaning of "NaN" for statistical >> convenience, but it's not a solution to use it in this way if you're >> solving a PDE and your step size is wrong and starts producing NaN. > > > Agreed, but the NaN-toolbox and the functions it shadows, do no solve > deterministic problems (like PDE's) but purely statistical functions. Thus, > it is justified to skip NaN's. Well, as statistics is only one part and not the primary reason to use Octave, it would be very weird to induce NaN-skipping behaviour in core Octave for all functions. I find the idea of 2 + NaN = 2 to be very weird, and I wouldn't want this to be default. So we can't completely overwrite Octave with your package, agreed? - Jordi G. H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
