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## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 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 2, 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, write to the Free
## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
## 02111-1307, USA.
## usage: polyderiv (p)
##
## Returns the coefficients of the derivative of the polynomial whose
## coefficients are given by vector p.
##
## SEE ALSO: poly, polyinteg, polyreduce, roots, conv, deconv, residue,
## filter, polyval, polyvalm
## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
## Created: June 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
function q = polyderiv (p)
if (nargin != 1)
usage ("polyderiv (vector)");
endif
if (! is_vector (p))
error ("polyderiv: argument must be a vector");
endif
lp = length (p);
if (lp == 1)
q = 0;
return;
elseif (lp == 0)
q = [];
return;
end
q = p (1:(lp-1)) .* [(lp-1):-1:1];
endfunction