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## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
##
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## usage: logspace (x1, x2, n)
##
## Return a vector of n logarithmically equally spaced points between
## 10^x1 and 10^x2 inclusive.
##
## If the final argument is omitted, n = 50 is assumed.
##
## All three arguments must be scalars.
##
## Note that if if x2 is pi, the points are between 10^x1 and pi, NOT
## 10^x1 and 10^pi.
##
## Yes, this is pretty stupid, because you could achieve the same
## result with logspace (x1, log10 (pi)), but Matlab does this, and
## claims that is useful for signal processing applications.
##
## See also: linspace
## Author: jwe
function retval = logspace (x1, x2, n)
if (nargin == 2)
npoints = 50;
elseif (nargin == 3)
if (length (n) == 1)
npoints = fix (n);
else
error ("logspace: arguments must be scalars");
endif
else
usage ("logspace (x1, x2 [, n])");
endif
if (npoints < 2)
error ("logspace: npoints must be greater than 2");
endif
if (length (x1) == 1 && length (x2) == 1)
x2_tmp = x2;
if (x2 == pi)
x2_tmp = log10 (pi);
endif
retval = 10 .^ (linspace (x1, x2_tmp, npoints));
else
error ("logspace: arguments must be scalars");
endif
endfunction
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