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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 r = roots (v)
-
- # usage: roots (v)
- #
- # For a vector v with n components, return the roots of the
- # polynomial v(1) * z^(n-1) + ... + v(n-1) * z + v(n).
-
- # Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@neuro.tuwien.ac.at) on Dec 24, 1993.
-
- [nr, nc] = size (v);
- if (nr <= 1 && nc <= 1)
- r = [];
- return;
- elseif (! ((nr == 1 && nc > 1) || (nc == 1 && nr > 1)))
- usage ("roots (v), where v is a nonzero vector");
- endif
-
- n = nr + nc - 1;
- v = reshape (v, 1, n);
-
- # If v = [ 0 ... 0 v(k+1) ... v(k+l) 0 ... 0 ], we can remove the
- # leading k zeros and n - k - l roots of the polynomial are zero.
-
- f = find (v);
- m = max (size (f));
- if (m > 0)
- v = v (f(1):f(m));
- l = max (size (v));
- if (l > 1)
- A = diag (ones (1, l-2), -1);
- A (1, :) = -v (2:l) ./ v (1);
- r = eig (A);
- if (f(m) < n)
- r = [r; zeros (n - f (m), 1)];
- endif
- else
- r = zeros (n - f(m), 1);
- endif
- else
- usage ("roots (v), where v is a nonzero vector");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-