## Copyright (C) 1999 Peter Ekberg
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} pascal (@var{n}, @var{t})
##
## Return the Pascal matrix of order @var{n} if @code{@var{t} = 0}.
## @var{t} defaults to 0. Return lower triangular Cholesky factor of 
## the Pascal matrix if @code{@var{t} = 1}. This matrix is its own
## inverse, that is @code{pascal (@var{n}, 1) ^ 2 == eye (@var{n})}.
## If @code{@var{t} = 2}, return a transposed and  permuted version of
## @code{pascal (@var{n}, 1)}, which is the cube-root of the identity
## matrix. That is @code{pascal (@var{n}, 2) ^ 3 == eye (@var{n})}.
##
## @seealso{hankel, vander, sylvester_matrix, hilb, invhilb, toeplitz
##           hadamard, wilkinson, compan, rosser}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Peter Ekberg
##         (peda)

function retval = pascal (n, t)

  if (nargin > 2) || (nargin == 0)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargin == 1)
    t = 0;
  endif

  if (! is_scalar (n) || ! is_scalar (t))
    error ("pascal: expecting scalar arguments, found something else");
  endif

  retval = diag ((-1).^[0:n-1]);
  retval(:,1) = ones (n, 1);

  for j = 2:n-1
    for i = j+1:n
      retval(i,j) = retval(i-1,j) - retval(i-1,j-1);
    endfor
  endfor

  if (t == 0)
    retval = retval*retval';
  elseif (t == 2)
    retval = retval';
    retval = retval(n:-1:1,:);
    retval(:,n) = -retval(:,n);
    retval(n,:) = -retval(n,:);
    if (rem(n,2) != 1)
      retval = -retval;
    endif
  endif

endfunction