From help-request at octave dot org Mon Apr 10 10:43:49 2006
Subject: Re: square waves
From: NZG <ngustavson at emacinc dot com>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: Doug Stewart <dastew at sympatico dot ca>, help@octave.org
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:39:06 -0500

On Saturday 08 April 2006 5:48 am, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> Octave-forge has the compatibility functions pulstran and rectpuls
> which can do the same thing:
>
>         n = 8*350;
>      x = pulstran([1:n],[101:350:n],'rectpuls',250);
Looks nice, thanks.

>See also the function square just added to octave-forge.
Same thing Matlab has, nice for compatibility but I don't like it because you 
don't get what you expect when you plot it, interpolation gives you a 
trianglish wave instead of a square. 
I think it really needs to use more points to more closely approx. a true 
square.

NZG



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