## Copyright (C) 2014-15 Jacopo Corno <jacopo.corno@gmail.com>
## Copyright (C) 2013 Roberto Porcu' <roberto.porcu@polimi.it>
##
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function retval = AbsRel_Norm (x, x_old, AbsTol, RelTol, normcontrol, y)

  n = length (x);

  if (nargin == 5)
    y = zeros (size (x));
  endif

  if (length (x_old) != n || length (y) != n)
    error ("Octave:invalid-input-arg", "invalid dimensions of input arguments");
  endif

  if ((length (AbsTol) != 1 && length (AbsTol) != n)
      || (length (RelTol) != 1 && length (RelTol) != n))
    error ("Octave:invalid-input-arg", "invalid dimensions of input arguments");
  endif

  sc = AbsTol + max (abs (x), abs (x_old)) .* RelTol;
  if (normcontrol)
    retval = max (abs (x - y) ./ sc);
  else
    retval = sqrt ((1 / n) * sumsq ((x - y) ./ sc));
  endif

endfunction