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- # Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
- #
- # This file is part of Octave.
- #
- # Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- # later version.
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- # for more details.
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-
- function retval = logspace (x1, x2, n)
-
- # usage: logspace (x1, x2, n)
- #
- # Return a vector of n logarithmically equally spaced points between
- # x1 and x2 inclusive.
- #
- # If the final argument is omitted, n = 50 is assumed.
- #
- # All three arguments must be scalars.
- #
- # Note that if if x2 is pi, the points are between 10^x1 and pi, NOT
- # 10^x1 and 10^pi.
- #
- # Yes, this is pretty stupid, because you could achieve the same
- # result with logspace (x1, log10 (pi)), but Matlab does this, and
- # claims that is useful for signal processing applications.
- #
- # See also: linspace
-
- if (nargin == 2)
- npoints = 50;
- elseif (nargin == 3)
- if (length (n) == 1)
- npoints = fix (n);
- else
- error ("logspace: arguments must be scalars");
- endif
- else
- usage ("logspace (x1, x2 [, n])");
- endif
-
- if (npoints < 2)
- error ("logspace: npoints must be greater than 2");
- endif
-
- if (length (x1) == 1 && length (x2) == 1)
- x2_tmp = x2;
- if (x2 == pi)
- x2_tmp = log10 (pi);
- endif
- retval = 10 .^ (linspace (x1, x2_tmp, npoints));
- else
- error ("logspace: arguments must be scalars");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-