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+## Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Peter Ekberg
+##
+## 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 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
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+##
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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} rosser ()
+## Return the Rosser matrix. This is a difficult test case used to evaluate
+## eigenvalue algorithms.
+##
+## @seealso{wilkinson, eig}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Peter Ekberg
+## (peda)
+
+function retval = rosser ()
+
+ if (nargin != 0)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ retval = [611, 196, -192, 407, -8, -52, -49, 29;
+ 196, 899, 113, -192, -71, -43, -8, -44;
+ -192, 113, 899, 196, 61, 49, 8, 52;
+ 407, -192, 196, 611, 8, 44, 59, -23;
+ -8, -71, 61, 8, 411, -599, 208, 208;
+ -52, -43, 49, 44, -599, 411, 208, 208;
+ -49, -8, 8, 59, 208, 208, 99, -911;
+ 29, -44, 52, -23, 208, 208, -911, 99];
+
+endfunction
+
+%!assert (size(rosser()), [8,8])
+%!error (rosser(1))