## Copyright (C) 2011   Lukas F. Reichlin
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{n} =} norm (@var{q})
## Norm of a quaternion.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reichlin@gmail.com>
## Created: November 2011
## Version: 0.1

function n = norm (a)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif
  
  if (! isscalar (a.w))
    warning ("norm: use 'abs' to calculate the lengths of quaternion arrays");
    error ("norm: only the 2-norm of scalar quaternions is implemented until now");
  endif

  n = abs (a);

endfunction