Problem 868. Replace all zeros and NaNs in a matrix with the string 'error'

Created by Ken Deeley

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Khaled Hamed on 29 Jul 2012

Any idea why b={1 0; nan 3}; isequal(b,b) gives false?

Khaled Hamed on 29 Jul 2012

Don't bother... nan is not equal to nan unless you use isequaln!

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