octave: Numeric Objects

 
 3.1.1 Numeric Objects
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 Octave’s built-in numeric objects include real, complex, and integer
 scalars and matrices.  All built-in floating point numeric data is
 currently stored as double precision numbers.  On systems that use the
 IEEE floating point format, values in the range of approximately
 2.2251e-308 to 1.7977e+308 can be stored, and the relative precision is
 approximately 2.2204e-16.  The exact values are given by the variables
 ‘realmin’, ‘realmax’, and ‘eps’, respectively.
 
    Matrix objects can be of any size, and can be dynamically reshaped
 and resized.  It is easy to extract individual rows, columns, or
 submatrices using a variety of powerful indexing features.  SeeIndex
 Expressions.
 
    SeeNumeric Data Types, for more information.