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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 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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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} polyreduce (@var{c}) |
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22 ## Reduces a polynomial coefficient vector to a minimum number of terms by |
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23 ## stripping off any leading zeros. |
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24 ## @end deftypefn |
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25 ## |
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26 ## @seealso{poly, roots, conv, deconv, residue, filter, polyval, |
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27 ## polyvalm, polyderiv, and polyinteg} |
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28 |
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29 ## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us> |
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30 ## Created: June 1994 |
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31 ## Adapted-By: jwe |
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32 |
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33 function p = polyreduce (p) |
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34 |
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35 if (nargin != 1) |
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36 usage ("polyreduce (p)"); |
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37 endif |
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38 |
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39 if (! (isvector (p) || isempty (p))) |
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40 error ("polyreduce: argument must be a vector"); |
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41 endif |
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42 |
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43 if (! isempty (p) ) |
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44 |
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45 index = find (p != 0); |
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46 |
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47 if (isempty (index)) |
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48 |
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49 p = 0; |
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50 |
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51 else |
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52 |
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53 p = p (index (1):length (p)); |
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54 |
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55 endif |
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56 |
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57 endif |
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58 |
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59 endfunction |