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## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
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## 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.
## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@neuro.tuwien.ac.at>
## Created: 24 December 1993
## Adapted-By: jwe
function y = poly (x)
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 = zeros (1, n+1);
y(1) = 1;
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
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