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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cond (@var{a})
## Compute the (two-norm) condition number of a matrix. @code{cond (a)} is
## defined as @code{norm (a) * norm (inv (a))}, and is computed via a
## singular value decomposition.
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{norm, svd, and rank}

## Author: jwe

function retval = cond (a)

  if (nargin == 1)
    if (ndims (a) > 2)
      error ("cond: Only valid on 2-D objects")
    endif

    [nr, nc] = size (a);
    if (nr == 0 || nc == 0)
      retval = 0.0;
    endif
    if (any (any (isinf (a) | isnan (a))))
      error ("cond: argument must not contain Inf or NaN values");
    else
      sigma = svd (a);
      sigma_1 = sigma(1);
      sigma_n = sigma(length (sigma));
      if (sigma_1 == 0 || sigma_n == 0)
        retval = Inf;
      else
        retval = sigma_1 / sigma_n;
      endif
    endif
  else
    usage ("cond (a)");
  endif

endfunction