I am not sure if this question has been placed before.

I run the following

<hansl>

set verbose off

set seed 1059999

scalar n = 5
scalar k = 5
matrix A = mrandgen(i,-4,4,n,k)

scalar a = -15

print A

eval a*A

B=a*A

print B

</hansl>

which evaluates a -0 in a*A[4,2] position or prints zero in B[4,2] position. Can this be avoided?

Yiannis