comparison scripts/polynomial/roots.m @ 787:c5d35bb139b6

[project @ 1994-10-11 00:34:13 by jwe] Initial revision
author jwe
date Tue, 11 Oct 1994 00:34:39 +0000
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1 function r = roots (v)
2 #
3 # For a vector v with n components, return the roots of the
4 # polynomial v(1) * z^(n-1) + ... + v(n-1) * z + v(n).
5
6 # Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@neuro.tuwien.ac.at) on Dec 24, 1993
7 # Copyright Dept of Probability Theory and Statistics TU Wien
8
9 [nr, nc] = size(v);
10 if !((nr == 1 && nc > 1) || (nc == 1 && nr > 1))
11 error ("usage: roots (v), where v is a nonzero vector");
12 endif
13
14 n = nr + nc - 1;
15 v = reshape (v, 1, n);
16
17 # If v = [ 0 ... 0 v(k+1) ... v(k+l) 0 ... 0 ], we can remove the
18 # leading k zeros and n - k - l roots of the polynomial are zero.
19 f = find (v);
20 m = max (size (f));
21 if (m > 0)
22 v = v(f(1):f(m));
23 l = max (size (v));
24 if (l > 1)
25 A = diag (ones (1, l-2), -1);
26 A(1,:) = -v(2:l) ./ v(1);
27 r = eig (A);
28 if (f(m) < n)
29 r = [r; zeros (n - f(m), 1)];
30 endif
31 else
32 r = zeros (n - f(m), 1);
33 endif
34 else
35 error ("usage: roots(v), where v is a nonzero vector");
36 endif
37
38 endfunction