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- # Copyright (C) 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
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- # 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 = orth (A, tol)
-
- # usage: orth (A, tol)
- # orth (A)
- #
- # Returns an orthonormal basis of the range of A.
- #
- # The dimension of the range space is taken as the number of singular
- # values of A greater than tol; the default for tol is
- # max (size (A)) * sigma_max (A) * eps, where sigma_max (A) is the
- # maximal singular value of A.
-
- # Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) on Dec 24, 1993.
-
- [U, S, V] = svd (A);
-
- [rows, cols] = size (A);
-
- [S_nr, S_nc] = size (S);
-
- if (S_nr == 1 || S_nc == 1)
- s = S(1);
- else
- s = diag (S);
- endif
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- tol = max (size (A)) * s (1) * eps;
- elseif (nargin != 2)
- usage ("orth (A [, tol])");
- endif
-
- rank = sum (s > tol);
-
- if (rank > 0)
- retval = -U (:, 1:rank);
- else
- retval = zeros (rows, 0);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-