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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: invhilb (n)
- ##
- ## Return the inverse of a Hilbert matrix of order n. This is slow but
- ## exact. Compare with inv (hilb (n)).
- ##
- ## See also: hankel, vander, hadamard, hilb, toeplitz
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = invhilb (n)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("invhilb (n)");
- endif
-
- nmax = length (n);
- if (nmax == 1)
- retval = zeros (n);
- for l = 1:n
- for k = l:n
- tmp = 1;
- for i = 1:n
- tmp = tmp * (i + k - 1);
- endfor
- for i = 1:n
- if (i != k)
- tmp = tmp * (l + i - 1);
- endif
- endfor
- for i = 1:n
- if (i != l)
- tmp = tmp / (i - l);
- endif
- endfor
- for i = 1:n
- if (i != k)
- tmp = tmp / (i - k);
- endif
- endfor
- retval (k, l) = tmp;
- retval (l, k) = tmp;
- endfor
- endfor
- else
- error ("hilb: expecting scalar argument, found something else");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-