# Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
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function r = roots (v)

# usage: roots (v)
#
# For a vector v with n components, return the roots of the
# polynomial v(1) * z^(n-1) + ... + v(n-1) * z + v(n).
  
# Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) on Dec 24, 1993
# Updated by KH on Nov 25, 1994
  
  if (min (size (v)) > 1 || nargin != 1)
    usage ("roots (v), where v is a vector");
  endif
  
  n = length (v);
  v = reshape (v, 1, n);  

  # If v = [ 0 ... 0 v(k+1) ... v(k+l) 0 ... 0 ], we can remove the
  # leading k zeros and n - k - l roots of the polynomial are zero.  

  f = find (v);
  m = max (size (f));
  
  if (m > 0 && n > 1)
    v = v(f(1):f(m));
    l = max (size (v));
    if (l > 1)
      A = diag (ones (1, l-2), -1);
      A(1,:) = -v(2:l) ./ v(1);
      r = eig (A);    
      if (f(m) < n)
        tmp = zeros (n - f(m), 1);
	r = [r; tmp];
      endif
    else
      r = zeros (n - f(m), 1);
    endif
  else
    r = [];
  endif
  
endfunction