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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} wilkinson (@var{n})
##
## Return the Wilkinson matrix of order @var{n}.  Wilkinson matrices are
## symmetric and tridiagonal with pairs of nearly, but not exactly, equal
## eigenvalues.
##
## @seealso{hankel, vander, sylvester_matrix, hilb, invhilb, toeplitz
##           hadamard, rosser, compan, pascal}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Peter Ekberg
##         (peda)

function retval = wilkinson (n)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (! (isscalar (n) && (n == fix (n)) && n > 0))
    error ("wilkinson: N must be an integer greater than 1");
  endif

  side = ones (n-1, 1);
  center = abs (-(n-1)/2:(n-1)/2);
  retval = diag (side, -1) + diag (center) + diag (side, 1);

endfunction