## Copyright (C) 2003 Motorola Inc and David Bateman
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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##
## 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.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{y} =} float (@var{x})
## Converts a fixed point object to the equivalent floating point object. This
## is equivalent to @code{@var{x}.x} if @code{isfixed(@var{x})} returns true,
## and returns @var{x} otherwise.
## @end deftypefn

function y = float (x)

  if isfixed(x)
    y = x.x;
  else
    y = x;
  endif

endfunction