On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
1) the argument to the ".^" operator gets passed as 0.5
rather than -0.5.
This is a bug.
Actually, the bug is more general and has to do with expression parsing.
Just try "eval 4^-0.5"; OTOH, "eval 4^(-0.5)" works fine.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
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http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti