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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 = vander (c)
-
- # usage: vander (c)
- #
- # Return the Vandermonde matrix whose next to last column is c.
- #
- # See also: hankel, hadamard, hilb, invhilb, toeplitz
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("vander (c)");
- endif
-
- nr = rows (c);
- nc = columns (c);
- if (nr == 1 && nc == 1)
- retval = 1;
- elseif (nr == 1 || nc == 1)
- n = length (c);
- if (n > 0)
- retval = zeros (n, n);
- for i = 1:n
- tmp = c(i);
- for j = 1:n
- retval (i, j) = tmp ^ (n - j);
- endfor
- endfor
- endif
- else
- error ("vander: argument must be a vector");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-