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Update section 17.1 (Utility Functions) of arith.txi Split section into "Exponents and Logarithms" and "Utility Functions" Use Tex in many more of the doc strings for pretty printing in pdf format.
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1 ## Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005,
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2 ## 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 John W. Eaton
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3 ##
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4 ## This file is part of Octave.
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5 ##
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6 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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7 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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8 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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9 ## your option) any later version.
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12 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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13 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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14 ## General Public License for more details.
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15 ##
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16 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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17 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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18 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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21 ## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} lcm (@var{x}, @dots{})
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22 ## Compute the least common multiple of the elements of @var{x}, or
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23 ## of the list of all arguments. For example,
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24 ##
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25 ## @example
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26 ## lcm (a1, @dots{}, ak)
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27 ## @end example
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28 ##
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29 ## @noindent
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30 ## is the same as
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31 ##
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32 ## @example
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33 ## lcm ([a1, @dots{}, ak]).
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34 ## @end example
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35 ##
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36 ## All elements must be the same size or scalar.
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37 ## @seealso{factor, gcd}
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38 ## @end deftypefn
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40 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
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41 ## Created: 16 September 1994
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42 ## Adapted-By: jwe
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44 function l = lcm (varargin)
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46 if (nargin == 0)
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47 print_usage ();
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48 endif
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50 if (nargin == 1)
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51 a = varargin{1};
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53 if (round (a) != a)
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54 error ("lcm: all arguments must be integer");
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55 endif
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57 if (any (a) == 0)
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58 l = 0;
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59 else
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60 a = abs (a);
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61 l = a (1);
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62 for k = 1:(length (a) - 1)
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63 l = l * a(k+1) / gcd (l, a(k+1));
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64 endfor
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65 endif
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66 else
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68 l = varargin{1};
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69 sz = size (l);
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70 nel = numel (l);
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73 a = varargin{i};
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76 if (nel == 1)
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77 sz = size (a);
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78 nel = numel (a);
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79 elseif (numel (a) != 1)
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80 error ("lcm: all arguments must be the same size or scalar");
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81 endif
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82 endif
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85 error ("lcm: all arguments must be integer");
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86 endif
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88 idx = find (l == 0 || a == 0);
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89 a = abs (a);
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90 l = l .* a ./ gcd (l, a);
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91 l(idx) = 0;
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97 %!assert(lcm (3, 5, 7, 15) == lcm ([3, 5, 7, 15]) && lcm ([3, 5, 7,15]) == 105);
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99 %!error lcm ();
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101 %!test
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102 %! s.a = 1;
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103 %! fail("lcm (s)");
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