[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#525113: Bug#525113: Bug#525113: Inconsistant complex matrix multiplication

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:01:19PM +0200, Laurent Mazet wrote:
> > Package: octave3.0
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-7
> > Arch: i386
> > Severity: grave
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just realized that I can multiply a real 2x2 matrix by a complex vector.
> 
> Uh, yes. Why shouldn't this work? Or in other words, how do you
> distinguish the real matrix from a complex matrix with its complex
> coefficients being zero
> 
> [ 1, 2; 3,4] is the same as [1+0i, 2+0i; 3+0i, 4+0i], isn't it?

Sorry, I just realized that the problem was the result, not the act of
multiplication. Anyway, which BLAS/ATLAS libraries are installed on your
system?

	Thomas