--- a/scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-02-27  Rik  <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
+
+	* special-matrix/pascal.m: Fix incorrect statement in documentation
+	for pascal.m.  Bug #32523.
+
 2011-02-26  Robert T. Short  <octave@phaselockedsystems.com>
 
 	* polynomial/polyval.m: Compute offset/normalization only when needed.

--- a/scripts/special-matrix/pascal.m
+++ b/scripts/special-matrix/pascal.m
@@ -21,14 +21,15 @@
 ## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} pascal (@var{n})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} pascal (@var{n}, @var{t})
 ## Return the Pascal matrix of order @var{n} if @code{@var{t} = 0}.
-## @var{t} defaults to 0.  Return lower triangular Cholesky@tie{}factor of
-## the Pascal matrix if @code{@var{t} = 1}.  This matrix is its own
+## @var{t} defaults to 0.  Return the pseudo-lower triangular 
+## Cholesky@tie{}factor of the Pascal matrix if @code{@var{t} = 1} (The sign
+## of some columns may be negative).  This matrix is its own
 ## inverse, that is @code{pascal (@var{n}, 1) ^ 2 == eye (@var{n})}.
-## If @code{@var{t} = -1}, return its absolute value.  This is the
-## standard Pascal triangle as a lower-triangular matrix.
+## If @code{@var{t} = -1}, return the true Cholesky@tie{}factor with strictly
+## positive values on the diagonal.  
 ## If @code{@var{t} = 2}, return a transposed and permuted version of
-## @code{pascal (@var{n}, 1)}, which is the cube-root of the identity
-## matrix.  That is @code{pascal (@var{n}, 2) ^ 3 == eye (@var{n})}.
+## @code{pascal (@var{n}, 1)}, which is the cube root of the identity
+## matrix.  That is, @code{pascal (@var{n}, 2) ^ 3 == eye (@var{n})}.
 ##
 ## @seealso{hankel, vander, sylvester_matrix, hilb, invhilb, toeplitz,
 ##          hadamard, wilkinson, compan, rosser}