Octave is fun!

Just struck me, how much fun these guys have, creating and maintaining a
scientific computation platform.

A peek into a recent message on the Octave mailing list.

Paul Kienzle   
to Red, help-octave
 
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  7:50 pm (1½ hours ago) 

On May 28, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Red Crow wrote:

> Hello:
>
>           Anybody knows how normalize  a distribution, to make  mean=0
> and sd=0.

Easy --- replace every value with 0.    8-)

I suspect you want mean=0, sd=1.  The function to
do that is zscore(), which subtracts the mean from every
data point and divides by the standard deviation.

- Paul

Do we have fun? You betcha.
-Muthu