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1 # Copyright (C) 1995 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 the |
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7 # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any |
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8 # later version. |
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9 # |
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10 # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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11 # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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12 # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License |
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13 # 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, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. |
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18 |
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19 function p = polyreduce (p) |
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20 |
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21 # usage: polyreduce(c) |
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22 # |
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23 # Reduces a polynomial coefficient vector to a minimum number of terms, |
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24 # i.e. it strips off any leading zeros. |
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25 # |
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26 # SEE ALSO: poly, roots, conv, deconv, residue, filter, polyval, polyvalm, |
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27 # polyderiv, polyinteg |
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28 |
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29 # Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) June 1994. |
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30 |
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31 index = find (p == 0); |
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33 index = find (index == 1:length(index)); |
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34 |
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35 if (length (index) == 0) |
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36 return; |
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37 endif |
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38 |
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39 if(length(p)>1) |
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40 p = p (index (length (index))+1:length(p)); |
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41 endif |
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42 |
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43 if (length (p) == 0) |
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44 p = 0; |
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45 endif |
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47 endfunction |