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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
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- # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
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-
- function retval = invhilb (n)
-
- # usage: invhilb (n)
- #
- # Return the inverse of a Hilbert matrix of order n. This is slow but
- # exact. Compare with inv (hilb (n)).
- #
- # See also: hankel, vander, hadamard, hilb, toeplitz
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("invhilb (n)");
- endif
-
- nmax = length (n);
- if (nmax == 1)
- retval = zeros (n);
- for l = 1:n
- for k = l:n
- tmp = 1;
- for i = 1:n
- tmp = tmp * (i + k - 1);
- endfor
- for i = 1:n
- if (i != k)
- tmp = tmp * (l + i - 1);
- endif
- endfor
- for i = 1:n
- if (i != l)
- tmp = tmp / (i - l);
- endif
- endfor
- for i = 1:n
- if (i != k)
- tmp = tmp / (i - k);
- endif
- endfor
- retval (k, l) = tmp;
- retval (l, k) = tmp;
- endfor
- endfor
- else
- error ("hilb: expecting scalar argument, found something else");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-