Any Octave users? What is this code snippet actually doing?

[Michael ODonnell]

> kmax=1;
> kfactor=(kmax-1.0)/delta/(orderbc+1.0)/delbc^orderbc;

> Unless matlab treats floats and ints differently than most other
> languages, I'd say its a bug because zero over anything is always zero.


Shame on anybody who'd intentionally code something like
that without also providing a comment about such a seemingly
counterintuitive approach.  >-/ Let's hope it's simply a bug...

Out of morbid curiosity, how does Octave report the value of
kfactor after

   kmax=1
   kfactor=(kmax-1.0)

  ??