## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} single (@var{val})
## Convert the numeric value @var{val} to single precision.
##
## @strong{Note}: this function currently returns its argument unchanged
## because Octave does not yet have a single-precision numeric data
## type.
## @end deftypefn

function retval = single (val)

  if (nargin == 1 && isnumeric (val))
    retval = val;
  else
    usage ("single (val)");
  endif

endfunction