function cumsum aborts octave

On  4-Apr-2005, Jiří Poláček <polacek <at> econ.muni.cz> wrote:

| Dimension equal to the number 3 gets Octave into a trouble, see example:
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| octave:1> v=1:5
| v =
| 
|   1  2  3  4  5
| 
| octave:2>
| octave:2> cumsum(v,3)
| octave: dim-vector.h:104: int& dim_vector::dim_vector_rep::elem(int): 
| Assertion `i >= 0 && i < ndims' failed.
| panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
| attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
| save to `octave-core' complete

I think this problem is fixed in later versions.  2.1.69 is the
current recommended version of Octave.

jwe

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