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mean: Process single as double to avoid precision limits (bug #63848). * mean.m: Change sum calls not associated with large int handling codepaths to process as "double" to avoid single precision limits from producing erroneous output. Add BISTs to test calls to sum that could lose precision. Add xfail BIST for showing the same problem with large doubles. * NEWS.9.md: Update description of changes to mean.m.
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 9 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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4 ### General improvements
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10 respective directory is taken into account for the tests.
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12 - `dec2base`, `dec2bin`, and `dec2hex` have all been overhauled. All three
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13 functions now accommodate negative inputs and fractional inputs, and repeated
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14 code between the functions has been reduced or eliminated. Previously only
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16 none of the three accepted fractional inputs. But now,
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17 `dec2base (100*pi, 16, 4, 6)` for exampele returns a base-16 string with four
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19 the number of decimal places (the fourth input) retains old behavior for
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20 backward compatibility, except that non-integer inputs will no longer error.
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22 ### Graphical User Interface
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24 ### Graphics backend
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26 * the `set` function now accepts any combination of name/value pairs,
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27 cell array of names / cell array of values, or property structures.
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28 This change is Matlab-compatible.
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30 ### Matlab compatibility
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32 - Overhauled `mean`, `median`, `var`, and `std` functions have been imported
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33 from statistics package v1.5.4 to compatibly implement 'nanflag' (bug #50571),
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34 'all' (bug #58116), and 'vecdim' (bug #58089) options, preserve output class,
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35 and match expected output behavior for empty (bug #50583) and sparse inputs
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37 overflow or precision concerns (bug #54567), and `mean` avoids errors due to
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38 limits of single precision by processing as doubles (bug #63848). `median`
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39 has also adopted the 'outtype' option from `mean`.
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41 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 9
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43 * `tensorprod`
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45 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators
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47 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 9
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49 major release after 9):
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51 - Functions
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53 Function | Replacement
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56 - Properties
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58 The following property names are discouraged, but there is no fixed
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59 date for their removal.
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61 Object | Property | Replacement
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62 -----------------|-------------|------------
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78 - Functions
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82 disable_diagonal_matrix | optimize_diagonal_matrix
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112 shorthand formats was an undocumented feature was removed from Octave 9.
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116 and has been removed.
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118 ### Old release news
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120 - [Octave 8.x](etc/NEWS.8)
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