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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
- # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- # 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 y = poly (x)
-
- # usage: poly (x)
- #
- # If A is a square n-by-n matrix, poly (A) is the row vector of
- # the coefficients of det (z * eye(n) - A), the characteristic
- # polynomial of A.
- #
- # If x is a vector, poly (x) is a vector of coefficients of the
- # polynomial whose roots are the elements of x.
-
- # Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@neuro.tuwien.ac.at) Dec 24, 1993.
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("poly (x)");
- endif
-
- m = min (size (x));
- n = max (size (x));
- if (m == 0)
- y = 1;
- elseif (m == 1)
- v = x;
- elseif (m == n)
- v = eig (x);
- else
- usage ("poly (x), where x is a vector or a square matrix");
- endif
-
- y = [1, zeros (1, n)];
- for j = 1:n;
- y(2:(j+1)) = y(2:(j+1)) - v(j) .* y(1:j);
- endfor
-
- if (all (all (imag (x) == 0)))
- y = real (y);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-