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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 = polyval (c, x)
-
- # usage: polyval (c, x)
- #
- # Evaluate a polynomial.
- #
- # 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).
- #
- # polyval(c,x) will evaluate the polynomial at the specified value of x.
- #
- # If x is a vector or matrix, the polynomial is evaluated at each of the
- # elements of x.
- #
- # SEE ALSO: polyvalm, poly, roots, conv, deconv, residue, filter,
- # polyderiv, polyinteg
-
- # Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) June 1994.
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("polyval (c, x)");
- endif
-
- if(is_matrix (c))
- error ("poly: first argument must be a vector.");
- endif
-
- if (length (c) == 0)
- y = c;
- return;
- endif
-
- n = length (c);
- y = c (1) * ones (rows (x), columns (x));
- for index = 2:n
- y = c (index) + x .* y;
- endfor
-
- endfunction
-