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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: hilb (n)
- ##
- ## Return the Hilbert matrix of order n. The i, j element of a Hilbert
- ## matrix is defined as
- ##
- ## H (i, j) = 1 / (i + j - 1);
- ##
- ## See also: hankel, vander, hadamard, invhilb, toeplitz
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = hilb (n)
-
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("hilb (n)");
- endif
-
- nmax = length (n);
- if (nmax == 1)
- retval = zeros (n);
- tmp = 1:n;
- for i = 1:n
- retval (i, :) = 1.0 ./ (tmp + (i - 1));
- endfor
- else
- error ("hilb: expecting scalar argument, found something else");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-