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New function "ordeig" (patch #9670) * scripts/linear-algebra/ordeig.m: New file. * scripts/linear-algebra/module.mk: Add new file. * scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m: Remove ordeig from the list. * libinterp/corefcn/schur.cc, libinterp/corefcn/ordschur.cc, libinterp/corefcn/qz.cc: Mention ordeig in the documentation. * NEWS: Mention the new function. Thanks to Marco Caliari who did most of the work. review and push by Andreas Weber <andy.weber.aw@gmail.com>
author Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>
date Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:22:33 +0200
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 5.0 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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4 ** The functions issymmetric and ishermitian accept an option "nonskew"
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5 or "skew" to calculate the symmetric or skew-symmetric property
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6 of a matrix. Performance has also been increased.
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15 exceeds the string length. This behavior more closely matches
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16 common sense and is Matlab compatible. Example:
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18 Octave 5.0 : strncmp ("abc", "abc", 100) => true
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22 read-only and will return the handle (number) of the figure.
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38 ** New functions added in 5.0:
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42 ** Deprecated functions.
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48 Function | Replacement
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60 octave_config_info | __octave_config_info__
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82 axes | xaxislocation | "zero"
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