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  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>double</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
  <DATE>October 99</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="double"> conversion from integer to double precision  representation</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>y=double(X)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>y=int16(X)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>y=int32(X)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>y=uint8(X)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>y=uint16(X)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>y=uint32(X)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
  <PARAM>
    <PARAM_INDENT>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>X</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: matrix of floats or integers</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>y</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: matrix of floats</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
    </PARAM_INDENT>
  </PARAM>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P>
    converts  data stored using  one, two or four bytes integers into
    double precision floating point representation. If <VERB>X</VERB> entries are already 
    double precision floats, nothing is done.</P>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <EXAMPLE>
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x=int8([0 12 140])
double(x)
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  </EXAMPLE>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>int8</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>inttype</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>type</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
