Octave is acting insane

[gusl]

Octave seems to think that the first entry in b isn't 1. But if you ask it what it is, it says 1. I've even tried 1 to different precisions, and it never says yes.

The code is:

function ret = stationaryDistr(mat)
  [a,b] = eig(mat')
  val = [0,0,0,0];
  b(1,1)==1.0000
  b(1,1)

  if (b(1,1)==1)
    val = normalize(a(:,1));
  elseif (b(2,2)==1)
    val = normalize(a(:,2));
  end
  ret = val
endfunction

I've had this issue since last week.

UPDATE: problem solved! See the comments below.

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Generally, it seems easy to abuse. The error messages.

Now, I just wish I could the enforce number / types of arguments passed to functions... or at least get a warning when the wrong number/type is passed.