[Scilab-users] Question about the infamous dot

[Sylvestre Ledru]

FYI, Scilab 5.4.1 will show:

-->1./[2 3 4]
Warning: "1./ ..." is interpreted as "1.0/ ...". Use "1 ./ ..." for
element wise operation
 ans  =

    0.0689655
    0.1034483
    0.1379310

Sylvestre


On 19/10/2012 16:56, Adrien Vogt-Schilb wrote:
> hI
> 
> This is interpreted as 1.0/[2 3 4]  (yes it is combersome)
> 
> you want to use:
> 
> 1.0./[2 3 4]
> 
> or
> 
> 1 ./[2 3 4]   //mind the space before the dot
> 
> you can also use [2 3 4].^-1
> 
> 
> note that
> 
> [2 3 4]*[0.0689;0.1034;0.1379] = 1
> 
> also note the orientation of each matrix (row or column)
> 
> 
> On 19/10/2012 08:14, Melvyn Drag wrote:
>> In one of the exercises that came with the scilab documentation there
>> is a question that says:
>> Why does:
>> 1./[2 3 4]
>> give the strange result
>> 0.0689
>> 0.1034
>> 0.1379
>>
>> Instead of
>>
>> 0.5
>> 0.333
>> 0.25
>>
>> I can't seem to come up with an answer.
>>
>> Thanks for the help!
>>
>> Mel
>>
>>
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