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# Copyright (C) 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.
function A = compan (c)
# usage: compan (c)
#
# Compute the companion matrix corresponding to polynomial vector c.
#
# In octave a polynomial is represented by it's coefficients (arranged
# in descending order). For example a vector c of length n+1 corresponds
# to the following nth order polynomial
#
# p(x) = c(1) x^n + ... + c(n) x + c(n+1).
#
# The corresponding companion matrix is
# _ _
# | -c(2)/c(1) -c(3)/c(1) ... -c(n)/c(1) -c(n+1)/c(1) |
# | 1 0 ... 0 0 |
# | 0 1 ... 0 0 |
# A = | . . . . . |
# | . . . . . |
# | . . . . . |
# |_ 0 0 ... 1 0 _|
#
# The eigenvalues of the companion matrix are equal to the roots of the
# polynomial.
#
# SEE ALSO: poly, roots, residue, conv, deconv, polyval, polyderiv, polyinteg
# Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) June 1994.
if (nargin != 1)
usage ("compan (vector)");
endif
if(is_matrix (c))
error("compan: expecting a vector argument.");
endif
# Ensure that c is a row vector.
if(rows(c) > 1)
c = c.';
endif
n = length (c);
A = diag (ones (n-2, 1), -1);
A (1, :) = -c (2:n) /c (1);
endfunction