--- a/scripts/polynomial/polygcd.m
+++ b/scripts/polynomial/polygcd.m
@@ -1,68 +1,3 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2000 Paul Kienzle
-##
-## 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 2 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, write to the Free Software
-## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{q}]} polygcd (@var{b}, @var{a}, @var{tol})
-##
-## Find greatest common divisor of two polynomials.  This is equivalent
-## to the polynomial found by multiplying together all the common roots.
-## Together with deconv, you can reduce a ratio of two polynomials.
-## Tolerance defaults to 
-## @example 
-## sqrt(eps).
-## @end example
-##  Note that this is an unstable
-## algorithm, so don't try it on large polynomials.
-##
-## Example
-## @example
-##    polygcd(poly(1:8),poly(3:12)) - poly(3:8)
-##    deconv(poly(1:8),polygcd(poly(1:8),poly(3:12))) - poly(1:2)
-## @end example
-## @end deftypefn
-##
-## @seealso{poly, polyinteg, polyderiv, polyreduce, roots, conv, deconv,
-## residue, filter, polyval, and polyvalm}
-
-function x = polygcd(b,a,tol)
-  if (nargin<2 || nargin>3)
-    usage("x=polygcd(b,a [,tol])");
-  endif
-  if (nargin<3), tol=sqrt(eps); endif
-  if (length(a)==1 || length(b)==1)
-    if a==0, x=b;
-    elseif b==0, x=a;
-    else x=1;
-    endif
-    return;
-  endif
-  a = a./a(1);
-  while (1)
-    [d, r] = deconv(b, a);
-    nz = find(abs(r)>tol);
-    if isempty(nz)
-      x = a; 
-      return;
-    else
-      r = r(nz(1):length(r));
-    endif
-    b = a;
-    a = r./r(1);
-  endwhile
-endfunction
 ## Copyright (C) 2000 Paul Kienzle
 ##
 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -81,7 +16,7 @@
 ## 02110-1301  USA
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{q}]} polygcd (@var{b}, @var{a}, @var{tol})
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{q} =} polygcd (@var{b}, @var{a}, @var{tol})
 ##
 ## Find greatest common divisor of two polynomials.  This is equivalent
 ## to the polynomial found by multiplying together all the common roots.
@@ -95,8 +30,8 @@
 ##
 ## Example
 ## @example
-##    polygcd(poly(1:8),poly(3:12)) - poly(3:8)
-##    deconv(poly(1:8),polygcd(poly(1:8),poly(3:12))) - poly(1:2)
+## polygcd (poly(1:8), poly(3:12)) - poly(3:8)
+##          deconv (poly(1:8), polygcd (poly(1:8), poly(3:12))) - poly(1:2)
 ## @end example
 ## @end deftypefn
 ##
@@ -129,7 +64,7 @@
 	  r = r(nz(1):length(r));
 	endif
 	b = a;
-	a /= r(1);
+	a = r / r(1);
       endwhile
     endif
   else