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# Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
#
# This file is part of Octave.
#
# Octave 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, or (at your option) any
# later version.
#
# Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
# Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
function retval = rank (A, tol)
# usage: rank (a, tol)
#
# Return the rank of the matrix a. The rank is taken to be the number
# of singular values of a that are greater than tol.
#
# If the second argument is omitted, it is taken to be
#
# tol = max (size (a)) * sigma (1) * eps;
#
# where eps is machine precision and sigma is the largest singular
# value of a.
if (nargin == 1)
sigma = svd (A);
tolerance = max (size (A)) * sigma (1) * eps;
elseif (nargin == 2)
sigma = svd (A);
tolerance = tol;
else
usage ("rank (A)");
endif
retval = sum (sigma > tolerance);
endfunction