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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program 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.
- ##
- ## This program 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 this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: pmt (r, n, a [, l] [, method])
- ##
- ## Compute the amount of periodic payment necessary to amortize a loan
- ## of amount a with interest rate r in n periods.
- ##
- ## With the optional scalar argument l, one can specify an initial
- ## lump-sum payment. With the optional string argument `method', one can
- ## specify whether payments are made at the end ("e", default) or at the
- ## beginning ("b") of each period.
- ##
- ## See also: pv, nper, rate
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Amount of periodic payment needed to amortize a loan
-
- function p = pmt (r, n, a, l, m)
-
- if ((nargin < 3) || (nargin > 5))
- usage ("pmt (r, n, a [, l] [, method])");
- endif
-
- if !(is_scalar (r) && (r > -1))
- error ("pmt: rate must be a scalar > -1");
- elseif !(is_scalar (n) && (n > 0))
- error ("pmt: n must be a positive scalar");
- elseif !(is_scalar (a) && (a > 0))
- error ("pmt: a must be a positive scalar.");
- endif
-
- if (nargin == 5)
- if !isstr (m)
- error ("pmt: `method' must be a string");
- endif
- elseif (nargin == 4)
- if isstr (l)
- m = l;
- l = 0;
- else
- m = "e";
- endif
- else
- l = 0;
- m = "e";
- endif
-
- p = r * (a - l * (1 + r)^(-n)) / (1 - (1 + r)^(-n));
-
- if strcmp (m, "b")
- p = p / (1 + r);
- endif
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- endfunction
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