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Octave includes support for single precision data types, and most of the
functions in Octave accept single precision values and return single
precision answers. A single precision variable is created with the
single
function.
for example:
sngl = single (rand (2, 2)) ⇒ sngl = 0.37569 0.92982 0.11962 0.50876 class (sngl) ⇒ single
Many functions can also return single precision values directly. For example
ones (2, 2, "single") zeros (2, 2, "single") eye (2, 2, "single") rand (2, 2, "single") NaN (2, 2, "single") NA (2, 2, "single") Inf (2, 2, "single")
will all return single precision matrices.