block version of diag function

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Francesco Potorti` wrote:

>>2) Is there any way to assemble a set of blocks along the diagonals of a
>>bigger matrix.
> 
> This is easy:
> 
>  -- Function File:  blkdiag (A, B, C, ...)
>      Build a block diagonal matrix from A, B, C, ....  All the
>      arguments must be numeric and are two-dimensional matrices or
>      scalars.
> 

Thank you. I was being stupid. I was using octave 3.0.0 but was looking at
the documentation for octave 2.9.9 (feb 1997). That is why I did not find
this function when I searched the whole document for the word 'block'. Now
I switched to the correct documentation.

regards
raju
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