Re: octave error

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On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Martin Marques wrote:
>Please, tell me I haven't lost it yet.
>
>octave:14> -5^4
>ans = -625
>
>Since when does an even power of a negative number give a negative result?
>
>$ rpm -q octave
>octave-2.9.9-1.fc6
>
Humm, must be running on a pentium?

Sorry, that was too good a chance to pass up. :)

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