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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 r = roots (v)
# usage: roots (v)
#
# For a vector v with n components, return the roots of the
# polynomial v(1) * z^(n-1) + ... + v(n-1) * z + v(n).
# Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@neuro.tuwien.ac.at) on Dec 24, 1993.
[nr, nc] = size (v);
if (nr <= 1 && nc <= 1)
r = [];
return;
elseif (! ((nr == 1 && nc > 1) || (nc == 1 && nr > 1)))
usage ("roots (v), where v is a nonzero vector");
endif
n = nr + nc - 1;
v = reshape (v, 1, n);
# If v = [ 0 ... 0 v(k+1) ... v(k+l) 0 ... 0 ], we can remove the
# leading k zeros and n - k - l roots of the polynomial are zero.
f = find (v);
m = max (size (f));
if (m > 0)
v = v (f(1):f(m));
l = max (size (v));
if (l > 1)
A = diag (ones (1, l-2), -1);
A (1, :) = -v (2:l) ./ v (1);
r = eig (A);
if (f(m) < n)
r = [r; zeros (n - f (m), 1)];
endif
else
r = zeros (n - f(m), 1);
endif
else
usage ("roots (v), where v is a nonzero vector");
endif
endfunction