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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program 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.
- ##
- ## This program 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 this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: y = log2 (x) or [f, e] = log2 (x)
- ##
- ## y = log2 (x) returns the logarithm of base 2 of x.
- ##
- ## [f, e] = log2 (x) returns f and e with 1/2 <= abs(f) < 1 and
- ## x = f * 2^e.
-
- ## Author: AW <Andreas.Weingessel@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 17 October 1994
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function [f, e] = log2 (x)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("y = log2 (x) or [f, e] = log2 (x)");
- endif
-
- if (nargout < 2)
- f = log (x) / log (2);
- elseif (nargout == 2)
- ## Only deal with the real parts ...
- x = real (x);
- ## Since log (0) gives problems, 0 entries are replaced by 1.
- ## This is corrected later by multiplication with the sign.
- f = abs (x) + (x == 0);
- e = (floor (log (f) / log (2)) + 1) .* (x != 0);
- f = sign (x) .* f ./ (2 .^ e);
- else
- error ("log2 takes at most 2 output arguments");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-
-