tril

Scilab Function
Last update : 25/04/2007

tril - lower triangular part of matrix

### Calling Sequence

  `tril(x [,k])`

### Parameters

- `x` : matrix (real, complex, polynomial, rational)
- `k` : integer (default value 0)

### Description

Lower triangle part of a matrix. `tril(x,k)` is made by entries below the kth diagonal : k>0 (upper diagonal) and k<0 (diagonals below the main diagonal).

### Examples

    s=poly(0,'s');
    tril([s,s;s,1])
    tril([1/s,1/s;1/s,1])

### See Also

`triu` , `ones` , `eye` , `diag` ,