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- ## Copyright (C) 1996 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, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
- ## 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: cond (a)
- ##
- ## Return the condition number of a, computed using the singular values
- ## of a.
- ##
- ## See also: norm, svd
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = cond (a)
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- [nr, nc] = size (a);
- if (nr == 0 && nc == 0)
- if (! propagate_empty_matrices)
- error ("cond: empty matrix is invalid as argument");
- endif
- if (strcmp (propagate_empty_matrices, "warn"))
- warning ("cond: argument is empty matrix\n");
- endif
- retval = 0.0;
- endif
- sigma = svd (a);
- retval = sigma (1) / sigma (length (sigma));
- else
- usage ("cond (a)");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-