--- /dev/null
+## Copyright (C) 1994-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} null (@var{A})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} null (@var{A}, @var{tol})
+## Return an orthonormal basis of the null space of @var{A}.
+##
+## The dimension of the null space is taken as the number of singular
+## values of @var{A} not greater than @var{tol}. If the argument @var{tol}
+## is missing, it is computed as
+##
+## @example
+## max (size (@var{A})) * max (svd (@var{A})) * eps
+## @end example
+## @seealso{orth}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
+## Created: 24 December 1993.
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+
+function retval = null (A, tol)
+
+ if (isempty (A))
+ retval = [];
+ else
+ [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)
+ if (isa (A, "single"))
+ tol = max (size (A)) * s (1) * eps ("single");
+ else
+ tol = max (size (A)) * s (1) * eps;
+ endif
+ elseif (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ rank = sum (s > tol);
+
+ if (rank < cols)
+ retval = V (:, rank+1:cols);
+ if (isa (A, "single"))
+ retval(abs (retval) < eps ("single")) = 0;
+ else
+ retval(abs (retval) < eps) = 0;
+ endif
+ else
+ retval = zeros (cols, 0);
+ endif
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! A = 0;
+%! assert(null(A), 1);
+
+%!test
+%! A = 1;
+%! assert(null(A), zeros(1,0))
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 0; 0 1];
+%! assert(null(A), zeros(2,0));
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 0; 1 0];
+%! assert(null(A), [0 1]')
+
+%!test
+%! A = [1 1; 0 0];
+%! assert(null(A), [-1/sqrt(2) 1/sqrt(2)]', eps)
+
+%!test
+%! tol = 1e-4;
+%! A = [1 0; 0 tol-eps];
+%! assert(null(A,tol), [0 1]')
+
+%!test
+%! tol = 1e-4;
+%! A = [1 0; 0 tol+eps];
+%! assert(null(A,tol), zeros(2,0));
+
+%!error null()