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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 y = poly (x)
# usage: poly (x)
#
# If A is a square n-by-n matrix, poly (A) is the row vector of
# the coefficients of det (z * eye(n) - A), the characteristic
# polynomial of A.
#
# If x is a vector, poly (x) is a vector of coefficients of the
# polynomial whose roots are the elements of x.
# Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@neuro.tuwien.ac.at) Dec 24, 1993.
if (nargin != 1)
usage ("poly (x)");
endif
m = min (size (x));
n = max (size (x));
if (m == 0)
y = 1;
elseif (m == 1)
v = x;
elseif (m == n)
v = eig (x);
else
usage ("poly (x), where x is a vector or a square matrix");
endif
y = [1, zeros (1, n)];
for j = 1:n;
y(2:(j+1)) = y(2:(j+1)) - v(j) .* y(1:j);
endfor
if (all (all (imag (x) == 0)))
y = real (y);
endif
endfunction