[17328] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.19: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Oct 28 12:40:54 1999
Message-Id: <199910281640.MAA15421@allegretto.mit.edu>
To: boojum@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [17326]
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:40:37 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Hi, Laura.
Have you tried 'bench' instead? It seems to be current, lives with
vendor-supplied stuff:
/mit/matlab_v5.3/distrib/toolbox/matlab/demos/bench.m
From what I can see, 'bench35' is a crufty old contrib function (maybe
35 stands for matlab 3.5?), and we should probably remove it at this
point...it's the same as what we have in matlab_v4.2, but seems to
work there because:
Previous versions of MATLAB allowed RAND('normal') to switch
the prevailing distribution to normal, RAND('uniform') to switch
back to uniform distribution, and RAND('dist') to return a string
containing the prevailing distribution, either 'uniform' or 'normal'.
MATLAB Version 4.0 continues to allow this switch, but
issues a warning message discouraging its use.
while 5.0 desupported those switches; supported methods now are the
functions 'rand' and 'randn'.
--Abby
P.S. to bugs-mtg chairs: looks like subject chaining overzealousness
here; boojum's mail has pref = [17291]...
