Re: patch for gamma test

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Mar 16/11/10, Ben Abbott  ha scritto:

> Data: Martedì 16 novembre 2010, 15:27
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Marco
> Atzeri wrote:
> 
> > As discussed on
> > 
> > https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-October/017501.html
> > 
> > this changeset amend the expectation from
> > 
> >  gamma(-1)= NaN 
> > to 
> >  gamma(-1)= Inf
> > 
> > Regards
> > Marco
> > 
> > <gamma.patch>
> 
> Matlab agrees that gamma(-1) is Inf, not NaN.
> 
> Octave gives NaN for me.  Should the sources be fixed
> to return the proper result?
> 
> Ben
> 

I presume it is system dependent.
On cygwin gamma(-1)= Inf

which system are you running ?

Marco