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partially sync Matrix::expm and ComplexMatrix::expm with development repo
author Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
date Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:29:51 +0200
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1 @c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007 John W. Eaton
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2 @c
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3 @c This file is part of Octave.
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4 @c
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5 @c Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 @c under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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7 @c Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 @c your option) any later version.
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10 @c Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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13 @c for more details.
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14 @c
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15 @c You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 @c along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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19 @node Sets
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20 @chapter Sets
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22 Octave has a limited set of functions for managing sets of data, where a
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23 set is defined as a collection of unique elements. In Octave a set is
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24 represented as a vector of numbers.
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26 @DOCSTRING(create_set)
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28 @DOCSTRING(unique)
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30 @menu
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31 * Set Operations::
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32 @end menu
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34 @node Set Operations
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35 @section Set Operations
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36
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37 Octave supports the basic set operations. That is, Octave can compute
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38 the union, intersection, complement, and difference of two sets.
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39 Octave can also supports the @emph{Exclusive Or} set operation, and
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40 membership determination. The functions for set operations all work in
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41 pretty much the same way. As an example, assume that @code{x} and
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42 @code{y} contains two sets, then
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44 @example
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45 union(x, y)
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46 @end example
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48 @noindent
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49 computes the union of the two sets.
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59 @DOCSTRING(setdiff)
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61 @DOCSTRING(setxor)