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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} vander (@var{c})
- ## Return the Vandermonde matrix whose next to last column is @var{c}.
- ##
- ## A Vandermonde matrix has the form
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $$
- ## \left[\matrix{c_0^n & \ldots & c_0^2 & c_0 & 1\cr
- ## c_1^n & \ldots & c_1^2 & c_1 & 1\cr
- ## \vdots & & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots\cr
- ## c_n^n & \ldots & c_n^2 & c_n & 1}\right].
- ## $$
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ##
- ## @example
- ## @group
- ## c(0)^n ... c(0)^2 c(0) 1
- ## c(1)^n ... c(1)^2 c(1) 1
- ## . . . .
- ## . . . .
- ## . . . .
- ##
- ## c(n)^n ... c(n)^2 c(n) 1
- ## @end group
- ## @end example
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: hankel, sylvester_matrix, hilb, invhilb, toeplitz
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = vander (c)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("vander (c)");
- endif
-
- nr = rows (c);
- nc = columns (c);
- if (nr == 1 && nc == 1)
- retval = 1;
- elseif (nr == 1 || nc == 1)
- n = length (c);
- if (n > 0)
- retval = zeros (n, n);
- for i = 1:n
- tmp = c(i);
- for j = 1:n
- retval (i, j) = tmp ^ (n - j);
- endfor
- endfor
- endif
- else
- error ("vander: argument must be a vector");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-