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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} rank (@var{A})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} rank (@var{A}, @var{tol})
+## Compute the rank of @var{A}, using the singular value decomposition.
+## The rank is taken to be the number of singular values of @var{A} that
+## are greater than the specified tolerance @var{tol}. If the second
+## argument is omitted, it is taken to be
+##
+## @example
+## tol = max (size (@var{A})) * sigma(1) * eps;
+## @end example
+##
+## @noindent
+## where @code{eps} is machine precision and @code{sigma(1)} is the largest
+## singular value of @var{A}.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function retval = rank (A, tol)
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ sigma = svd (A);
+ if (isempty (sigma))
+ tolerance = 0;
+ else
+ if (isa (A, "single"))
+ tolerance = max (size (A)) * sigma (1) * eps ("single");
+ else
+ tolerance = max (size (A)) * sigma (1) * eps;
+ endif
+ endif
+ elseif (nargin == 2)
+ sigma = svd (A);
+ tolerance = tol;
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ retval = sum (sigma > tolerance);
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12;
+%! 1 2 3.1 4 5 6 7;
+%! 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;
+%! 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 10;
+%! 5 6 7 8 9 10 11];
+%! assert(rank(A),4);
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12;
+%! 1 2 3.0000001 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12.00001;
+%! 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 10;
+%! 5 6 7 8 9 10 11];
+%! assert(rank(A),4);
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12;
+%! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12.00001;
+%! 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 10;
+%! 5 6 7 8 9 10 11];
+%! assert(rank(A),3);
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12;
+%! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 12;
+%! 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;
+%! 4 5 6 7 8 9 10;
+%! 5 6 7 8 9 10 11];
+%! assert(rank(A),3);
+
+%!test
+%! A = eye(100);
+%! assert(rank(A),100);
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1, 2, 3; 1, 2.001, 3; 1, 2, 3.0000001];
+%! assert(rank(A),3)
+%! assert(rank(A,0.0009),1)
+%! assert(rank(A,0.0006),2)
+%! assert(rank(A,0.00000002),3)
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