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+## Copyright (C) 2006 Sylvain Pelissier <sylvain.pelissier@gmail.com>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{y} =} dirac(@var{x})
+## Compute the dirac delta function.
+## @seealso{heaviside}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function y = dirac(x)
+ if (nargin != 1)
+ print_usage;
+ endif
+ y = double(x == 0.);
+ y(x == 0) = Inf;
+endfunction