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+## Copyright (C) 2014 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} finite (@var{x})
+##
+## @code{finite} is deprecated and will be removed in Octave version 4.6.
+## Please use @code{isfinite} in all new code.
+##
+## Return a logical array which is true where the elements of @var{x} are
+## finite values and false where they are not.
+## For example:
+## 
+## @example
+## @group
+## finite ([13, Inf, NA, NaN])
+##      @result{} [ 1, 0, 0, 0 ]
+## @end group
+## @end example
+## @seealso{isfinite, isinf, isnan, isna}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Deprecated in version 4.2
+
+function retval = finite (varargin)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "finite is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use isfinite instead");
+  endif
+
+  retval = isfinite (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction
+