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- ## Copyright (C) 1996 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.
-
- ## usage: logspace (x1, x2, n)
- ##
- ## Return a vector of n logarithmically equally spaced points between
- ## 10^x1 and 10^x2 inclusive.
- ##
- ## If the final argument is omitted, n = 50 is assumed.
- ##
- ## All three arguments must be scalars.
- ##
- ## Note that if if x2 is pi, the points are between 10^x1 and pi, NOT
- ## 10^x1 and 10^pi.
- ##
- ## Yes, this is pretty stupid, because you could achieve the same
- ## result with logspace (x1, log10 (pi)), but Matlab does this, and
- ## claims that is useful for signal processing applications.
- ##
- ## 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
-