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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 = polyval (c, x)
# usage: polyval (c, x)
#
# Evaluate a polynomial.
#
# 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).
#
# polyval(c,x) will evaluate the polynomial at the specified value of x.
#
# If x is a vector or matrix, the polynomial is evaluated at each of the
# elements of x.
#
# SEE ALSO: polyvalm, poly, roots, conv, deconv, residue, filter,
# polyderiv, polyinteg
# Written by Tony Richardson (amr@mpl.ucsd.edu) June 1994.
if (nargin != 2)
usage ("polyval (c, x)");
endif
if(is_matrix (c))
error ("poly: first argument must be a vector.");
endif
if (length (c) == 0)
y = c;
return;
endif
n = length (c);
y = c (1) * ones (rows (x), columns (x));
for index = 2:n
y = c (index) + x .* y;
endfor
endfunction