## Copyright (C) 2000 Daniel Calvelo
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} dec2hex (@var{n})
## Return the hexadecimal string corresponding to the nonnegative 
## integer @var{n}.  For example,
##
## @example
## dec2hex (2748)
##      @result{} "ABC"
## @end example
##
## If @var{n} is a vector, returns a string matrix, one row per value,
## padded with leading zeros to the width of the largest value.
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{hex2dec, dec2base, base2dec, bin2dec, dec2bin}

## Author: Daniel Calvelo
## Adapted-by: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@kienzle.powernet.co.uk>

function h = dec2hex (d)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("dec2hex (b)");
  else
    h = dec2base (d, 16);
  endif

endfunction