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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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8 ## any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02110-1301, USA. |
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19 |
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} single (@var{val}) |
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22 ## Convert the numeric value @var{val} to single precision. |
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23 ## |
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24 ## @strong{Note}: this function currently returns its argument converted |
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25 ## to double precision because Octave does not yet have a single-precision |
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26 ## numeric data type. |
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27 ## @end deftypefn |
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28 |
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29 function retval = single (val) |
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30 |
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31 if (nargin == 1 && isnumeric (val)) |
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32 retval = double(val); |
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33 else |
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34 print_usage (); |
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35 endif |
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36 |
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37 endfunction |
