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bug #60515: trace documentation

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 04 May 2021 08:39:44 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  Invalid / Not an Octave Bug Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 6.2.0
Operating System:  * Any Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Mon 30 Aug 2021 08:42:48 AM UTC, comment #3: 

No further comments, closing report.

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Fri 20 Aug 2021 06:39:47 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Is there anything to fix here?

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Tue 04 May 2021 09:27:16 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It's generally understood from linear algebra that trace() applies to 2-D matrices.  Matlab also doesn't bother to document that N-dimensional arrays are excluded.

If you need a trace of a 2-D projection then you will need to use a for loop as you asked.  For example,


A = rand (3,3,3);
T = zeros (3,1);
for i = 1:3
  T(i) = trace (A(:,:,i));
endfor


Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Tue 04 May 2021 08:39:44 AM UTC, original submission:  


A=rand(3,3,3);
x=trace(A)
error: trace: only valid on 2-D objects
error: called from
    trace at line 37 column 5


Expected x to consist of 3 values.

The documentation is not clear about this:


## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {} trace (@var{A})
## Compute the trace of @var{A}, the sum of the elements along the main
## diagonal.
##
## The implementation is straightforward: @code{sum (diag (@var{A}))}.
## @seealso{eig}
## @end deftypefn


The error is more clear.



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Having many DCM and doing the trace.
Does this need to done in a loop?

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2021-08-30 siko1056 StatusNone Invalid / Not an Octave Bug
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2021-08-20 jwe CategoryNone Octave Function

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