Re: Basic editing in Octave under Windows environment

[Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso]

On 30/11/06, Junkichi Sugita <address@hidden> wrote:
> Does OCTAVE have capabilities to manipulate a rational function (i.e. a
> polynomial divided by another)?

Well, GNU Octave knows IEEE arithmetic, and you can easily write a
script or function file that returns the values of a rational function
at a given point...

But if what you want is to symbolically manipulate rational functions,
then Octave probably isn't the right tool for the job. Try Maxima or
Axiom for that.

> Is there any OCTAVE function to provide a variable-substituted
> rational/polynomial function of P(s) with "s" substituted by e.g. "j*f" or
> "1/f"?

There are hacks to accomplish this sort of behaviour, but it sounds
like you want symbolic manipulations. Octave is not made for this.

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.