matdiagonal

Function: matdiagonal
Section: linear_algebra
C-Name: diagonal
Prototype: G
Help: matdiagonal(x): creates the diagonal matrix whose diagonal entries are
 the entries of the vector x.
Doc: $x$ being a vector, creates the diagonal matrix
 whose diagonal entries are those of $x$.
 \bprog
 ? matdiagonal([1,2,3]);
 %1 =
 [1 0 0]

 [0 2 0]

 [0 0 3]
 @eprog\noindent Block diagonal matrices are easily created using
 \tet{matconcat}:
 \bprog
 ? U=[1,2;3,4]; V=[1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9];
 ? matconcat(matdiagonal([U, V]))
 %1 =
 [1 2 0 0 0]

 [3 4 0 0 0]

 [0 0 1 2 3]

 [0 0 4 5 6]

 [0 0 7 8 9]
 @eprog