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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.
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} polyval (@var{c}, @var{x})
## Evaluate a polynomial.
##
## @code{polyval (@var{c}, @var{x})} will evaluate the polynomial at the
## specified value of @var{x}.
##
## If @var{x} is a vector or matrix, the polynomial is evaluated at each of
## the elements of @var{x}.
## @end deftypefn
## SEE ALSO: polyvalm, poly, roots, conv, deconv, residue, filter,
## polyderiv, polyinteg
## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
## Created: June 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
function y = polyval (c, x)
if (nargin != 2)
usage ("polyval (c, x)");
endif
if (! (is_vector (c) || isempty (c)))
error ("polyval: first argument must be a vector.");
endif
if (isempty (x))
y = [];
return;
endif
if (length (c) == 0)
y = c;
return;
endif
n = length (c);
y = c (1) * ones (rows (x), columns (x));
for index = 2:n
y = c (index) + x .* y;
endfor
endfunction