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- # Copyright (C) 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.
- #
- # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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- # for more details.
- #
- # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- # Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- function A = compan (c)
-
- # usage: compan (c)
- #
- # Compute the companion matrix corresponding to polynomial vector c.
- #
- # In octave a polynomial is represented by it's coefficients (arranged
- # in descending order). For example a vector c of length n+1 corresponds
- # to the following nth order polynomial
- #
- # p(x) = c(1) x^n + ... + c(n) x + c(n+1).
- #
- # The corresponding companion matrix is
- # _ _
- # | -c(2)/c(1) -c(3)/c(1) ... -c(n)/c(1) -c(n+1)/c(1) |
- # | 1 0 ... 0 0 |
- # | 0 1 ... 0 0 |
- # A = | . . . . . |
- # | . . . . . |
- # | . . . . . |
- # |_ 0 0 ... 1 0 _|
- #
- # The eigenvalues of the companion matrix are equal to the roots of the
- # polynomial.
- #
- # SEE ALSO: poly, roots, residue, conv, deconv, polyval, polyderiv, polyinteg
-
- # Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) June 1994.
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("compan (vector)");
- endif
-
- if(is_matrix (c))
- error("compan: expecting a vector argument.");
- endif
-
- # Ensure that c is a row vector.
-
- if(rows(c) > 1)
- c = c.';
- endif
-
- n = length (c);
- A = diag (ones (n-2, 1), -1);
- A (1, :) = -c (2:n) /c (1);
-
- endfunction
-