Polynomial Multiplication in Matlab
The matlab function conv (convolution) can be used to perform polynomial multiplication. For example:
B1 = [1 1]; % 1st row of Pascal's triangle B2 = [1 2 1]; % 2nd row of Pascal's triangle B3 = conv(B1,B2) % 3rd row % B3 = 1 3 3 1 B4 = conv(B1,B3) % 4th row % B4 = 1 4 6 4 1 % ...The matlab conv(B1,B2) is identical to filter(B1,1,B2), except that conv returns the complete convolution of its two input vectors, while filter truncates the result to the length of the ``input signal'' B2.7.10 Thus, if B2 is zero-padded with length(B1)-1 zeros, it will return the complete convolution:
B1 = [1 2 3]; B2 = [4 5 6 7]; conv(B1,B2) % ans = 4 13 28 34 32 21 filter(B1,1,B2) % ans = 4 13 28 34 filter(B1,1,[B2,zeros(1,length(B1)-1)]) % ans = 4 13 28 34 32 21
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