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dec2bin.m: Allow negative number inputs (bug #58147).
* dec2bin.m: Document that negative numbers are converted according to 2's
complement convention. Add example to documentation of converting a
negative number. Add algorithm to detect negative inputs and add the
appropriate offset for 2's complement notation. Add BIST tests.
author | Nicholas R. Jankowski <jankowskin@asme.org> |
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date | Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:53:51 -0700 |
parents | 9f9ac219896d |
children | d8318c12d903 0a5b15007766 |
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######################################################################## ## ## Copyright (C) 1996-2020 The Octave Project Developers ## ## See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this ## distribution or <https://octave.org/copyright/>. ## ## 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 3 of the License, 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, see ## <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ## ######################################################################## ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {} {} blanks (@var{n}) ## Return a string of @var{n} blanks. ## ## For example: ## ## @example ## @group ## blanks (10); ## whos ans ## @result{} ## Attr Name Size Bytes Class ## ==== ==== ==== ===== ===== ## ans 1x10 10 char ## @end group ## @end example ## @seealso{repmat} ## @end deftypefn function s = blanks (n) if (nargin != 1) print_usage (); elseif (! (isscalar (n) && n == fix (n) && n >= 0)) error ("blanks: N must be a non-negative integer"); endif ## If 1:n is empty, the following expression will create an empty ## character string. Otherwise, it will create a row vector. s(1:n) = " "; endfunction ## There really isn't that much to test here %!assert (blanks (0), "") %!assert (blanks (5), " ") %!assert (blanks (10), " ") ## Test input validation %!error blanks () %!error blanks (1, 2) %!error blanks (ones (2)) %!error blanks (2.1) %!error blanks (-2)