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- ## Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 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, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- ## usage: linspace (x1, x2, n)
- ##
- ## Return a vector of n equally spaced points between x1 and x2
- ## inclusive.
- ##
- ## If the final argument is omitted, n = 100 is assumed.
- ##
- ## All three arguments must be scalars.
- ##
- ## See also: logspace
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = linspace (x1, x2, n)
-
- if (nargin == 2)
- npoints = 100;
- elseif (nargin == 3)
- if (length (n) == 1)
- npoints = fix (n);
- else
- error ("linspace: arguments must be scalars");
- endif
- else
- usage ("linspace (x1, x2 [, n])");
- endif
-
- if (npoints < 2)
- error ("linspace: npoints must be greater than 2");
- endif
-
- ## In some cases x1 + delta * (npoints - 1) will not be equal to x2,
- ## so we cheat and force the last value to be x2.
-
- if (length (x1) == 1 && length (x2) == 1)
- delta = (x2 - x1) / (npoints - 1);
- retval = [x1+(0:npoints-2)*delta, x2];
- else
- error ("linspace: arguments must be scalars");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-