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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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## Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Kai Habel
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{y}] =} pol2cart (@var{theta}, @var{r})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}] =} pol2cart (@var{theta}, @var{r}, @var{z})
## Transform polar or cylindrical to cartesian coordinates.
## @var{theta}, @var{r} (and @var{z}) must be of same shape, or scalar.
## @var{theta} describes the angle relative to the x-axis.
## @var{r} is the distance to the z-axis (0, 0, z).
## @seealso{cart2pol, cart2sph, sph2cart}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
## Adapted-by: jwe

function [x, y, z] = pol2cart (theta, r, z)

  if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
    error ("pol2cart: number of arguments must be 2 or 3");
  endif

  if (nargin == 2 && nargout > 2)
    error ("pol2cart: number of output arguments must not be greater than number of input arguments");
  endif

   if ((ismatrix (theta) && ismatrix (r) && (nargin == 2 || ismatrix (z)))
       && (size_equal (theta, r) || isscalar (theta) || isscalar (r))
       && (nargin == 2 || size_equal (theta, z) || isscalar (theta) || isscalar (z))
       && (nargin == 2 || size_equal (r, z) || isscalar (r) || isscalar (z)))

    x = cos (theta) .* r;
    y = sin (theta) .* r;

  else
    error ("pol2cart: arguments must be matrices of same size, or scalar");
  endif

endfunction

%!test
%! t = [0, 0.5, 1] * pi;
%! r = 1;
%! [x, y] = pol2cart (t, r);
%! assert (x, [1, 0, -1], sqrt(eps));
%! assert (y, [0, 1,  0], sqrt(eps));

%!test
%! t = [0, 1, 1] * pi/4;
%! r = sqrt(2) * [0, 1, 2];
%! [x, y] = pol2cart (t, r);
%! assert (x, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
%! assert (y, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));

%!test
%! t = [0, 1, 1] * pi/4;
%! r = sqrt(2) * [0, 1, 2];
%! z = [0, 1, 2];
%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
%! assert (x, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
%! assert (y, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
%! assert (z, z2);

%!test
%! t = 0;
%! r = [0, 1, 2];
%! z = [0, 1, 2];
%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
%! assert (x, [0, 1, 2], sqrt(eps));
%! assert (y, [0, 0, 0], sqrt(eps));
%! assert (z, z2);

%!test
%! t = [1, 1, 1]*pi/4;
%! r = 1;
%! z = [0, 1, 2];
%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
%! assert (x, [1, 1, 1] / sqrt(2), eps);
%! assert (y, [1, 1, 1] / sqrt(2), eps);
%! assert (z, z2);

%!test
%! t = 0;
%! r = [1, 2, 3];
%! z = 1;
%! [x, y, z2] = pol2cart (t, r, z);
%! assert (x, [1, 2, 3], eps);
%! assert (y, [0, 0, 0] / sqrt(2), eps);
%! assert (z, z2);