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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.
- #
- # 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 retval = hilb (n)
-
- # usage: hilb (n)
- #
- # Return the Hilbert matrix of order n. The i, j element of a Hilbert
- # matrix is defined as
- #
- # H (i, j) = 1 / (i + j - 1);
- #
- # See also: hankel, vander, hadamard, invhilb, toeplitz
-
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("hilb (n)");
- endif
-
- nmax = length (n);
- if (nmax == 1)
- retval = zeros (n);
- tmp = 1:n;
- for i = 1:n
- retval (i, :) = 1.0 ./ (tmp + (i - 1));
- endfor
- else
- error ("hilb: expecting scalar argument, found something else");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-