[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59719] dec2bin issues an error for non-integer inputs while Matlab does not

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #59719 (project octave):

just checking again on matlab compatibility as I was going to add the detail
to the help note, Matlab is, as usual, weird.  For positive numbers, dec2bin
applies fix(x) to the input to trim off fractions.  for negative numbers, it
appears to apply round(x).  **eyeroll**


>> dec2bin(12)
ans =
    '1100'
>> dec2bin(12.4)
ans =
    '1100'
>> dec2bin(12.6)
ans =
    '1100'

>> dec2bin(-12)
ans =
    '11110100'
>> dec2bin(-12.2)
ans =
    '11110100'
>> dec2bin(-12.6)
ans =
    '11110011'
>> dec2bin(-13)
ans =
    '11110011'


hooray consistency.

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