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Remove Leading Zero Coefficients from a Descending Polynomial

Syntax	polyreduce(p)
See Also	conv , polmul

Description
Removes leading coefficients that are near zero from the descending polynomial p (thus the resulting descending polynomial is equivalent). A coefficient is considered near zero if its absolute value is less than or equal to
              2
     length(p) * eps * max(abs(p))
where eps is machine epsilon (if p is real, machine epsilon corresponds to single precision, otherwise it corresponds to double precision.) If the polynomial p is identically zero, the scalar zero with the same type as p is returned.

Example
If you enter
     p = [0, 1, 2]
     polyreduce(p)
O-Matrix will reply
     [ 1 , 2 ]