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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Mehran,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I can't give you any explanation (and I've never really questioned these points myself) but you may find some sections of these documents interesting or useful. They both mention integer value ranges.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> www.scilab.org/content/download/247/1702/file/introscilab.pdf page 25</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <a href="http://wiki.scilab.org/Tutorials?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Scilab4Matlab.pdf">http://wiki.scilab.org/Tutorials?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Scilab4Matlab.pdf</a> page 18</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best wishes,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Adrian.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">Hi; <br>
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One reason for using integer type is to save memory space, isn't it? <br>
However, whos() gives us 24 bytes as storage space for both integer and double data types.<br>
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var1 = int8(23); // 1 byte integer representation<br>
whos -name var1<br>
var2 = 23;<br>
whos -name var2<br>
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In contrast, Matlab's whos() returns 1 byte for int8 data type and 8 bytes for double precision number. <br>
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And another case, <br>
For values larger than the maximum value of a given integer data type (e.g. 127 for int8) Scilab and Matlab return different values. <br>
For example, Scilab's result for int8(200) is -56 but Matlab's result will be 127 (the largest value which can be stored in this data type). <br>
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Could anyone discuss on these different results returned by Scilab and Matalb? And specially the source of the differences? Thank you.<br>
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Regards, <br>
Mehran<br>
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