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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.
- ##
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- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
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- ## 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.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} logspace (@var{base}, @var{limit}, @var{n})
- ## Similar to @code{linspace} except that the values are logarithmically
- ## spaced from
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $10^{base}$ to $10^{limit}$.
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ## 10^base to 10^limit.
- ## @end ifinfo
- ##
- ## If @var{limit} is equal to
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $\pi$,
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ## pi,
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## the points are between
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $10^{base}$ and $\pi$,
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ## 10^base and pi,
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## @emph{not}
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $10^{base}$ and $10^{\pi}$,
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ## 10^base and 10^pi,
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## in order to be compatible with the corresponding @sc{Matlab} function.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: linspace
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = logspace (x1, x2, n)
-
- if (nargin == 2)
- npoints = 50;
- elseif (nargin == 3)
- if (length (n) == 1)
- npoints = fix (n);
- else
- error ("logspace: arguments must be scalars");
- endif
- else
- usage ("logspace (x1, x2 [, n])");
- endif
-
- if (npoints < 2)
- error ("logspace: npoints must be greater than 2");
- endif
-
- if (length (x1) == 1 && length (x2) == 1)
- x2_tmp = x2;
- if (x2 == pi)
- x2_tmp = log10 (pi);
- endif
- retval = 10 .^ (linspace (x1, x2_tmp, npoints));
- else
- error ("logspace: arguments must be scalars");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-