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MATLAB Can't Manipulate 64-Bit Integers 334

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 02, 2010 @08:38PM from the does-not-compute dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MATLAB, an important package of mathematical software heavily used in industry and academia, has had support for 64-bit machines for several years now. However, the MATLAB developers still haven't gotten around to implementing even basic arithmetic operations for 64-bit integers. Attempting to add, divide, subtract, or multiply two 64-bit integers will result in an error message saying that the corresponding method does not exist. As one commentator put it, 'What is the point of having numerical data types that can't be manipulated?'" The post notes that the free MATLAB clone GNU Octave deals with 64-bit integers just fine.

Comment Re:I understand MS's position (Score 1) 632

by rknall on Friday September 24, 1999 @03:35AM (#1663074) Attached to: Microsoft Plays Linux Games at Work

Yes! Say it often, say it loud! That was one of the best statements I ever read, especially 'cause you kept away emotions.
I prefer Linux over Windows. I do, because I decided some time ago, I do not want to reboot my system every time an IDE (Visual Basic, Visual J++) crashes. It took me very long, to get satisfied with a distribution (RedHat 6.0). Although it is not perfect, it works, and I now what to do, if something goes wrong.
I should also confess, that I hated Win3.1 And 3.11. The first windows (I use PC's for over 7 years now) I really used was Win95. And now, every time some of my friends came across me, asking which system they should use, I say Win98. Not 'cause I do not want to help them, using Linux, but you can install it and start to work. You can download things, and they will run! No compiling, no lib searching (wanna try? On a fresh installed RedHat system, where is libqimgio.so?), no env settings, no .bashrc, .bash_profile, /etc/bashrc /etc/profile chaos. BUT, if they wanna work on a running system (with work I mean compiling and programming, even Web programming) I will recommend Linux.

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