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## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
##
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## 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
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