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[project @ 1999-10-12 05:49:45 by jwe]
author jwe
date Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:52:31 +0000
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1 ## Copyright (C) 1998 John W. Eaton
2 ##
3 ## This file is part of Octave.
4 ##
5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8 ## any later version.
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18 ## 02111-1307, USA.
19
20 ## usage: randperm (N)
21 ##
22 ## Return a row vector containing a random permutation of the
23 ## integers from 1 to N.
24
25 ## Author: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
26 ## Adapted-By: jwe
27
28 function retval = randperm (n)
29
30 if (nargin == 1 && is_scalar (n) && floor (n) == n)
31 if (n > 0)
32 [junk, retval] = sort (rand (1, n));
33 else
34 error ("randperm: argument must be positive");
35 endif
36 else
37 usage ("randperm (n)");
38 endif
39
40 endfunction