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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} dmult (@var{a}, @var{b})
## If @var{a} is a vector of length @code{rows (@var{b})}, return
## @code{diag (@var{a}) * @var{b}} (but computed much more efficiently).
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Rescale the rows of a matrix

function M = dmult (a, B)

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("dmult (a, B)");
  endif

  s = size (a);
  if ((min (s) > 1) || (max (s) != rows (B)))
    error ("dmult: a must be a vector of length rows (B)");
  endif

  M = (reshape (a, max (s), 1) * ones (1, columns (B))) .* B;

endfunction