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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.
- #
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- # for more details.
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-
- 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
-