From help-request at octave dot org Mon Apr 10 12:15:22 2006
Subject: Re: square waves
From: "Keith Goodman" <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: NZG <ngustavson at emacinc dot com>
Cc: "Paul Kienzle" <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>,         "Doug Stewart" <dastew@sympatico.ca>, help@octave.org
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:13:18 -0700

On 4/10/06, NZG <ngustavson at emacinc dot com> wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried plotting it with stairs.m?



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