## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
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## Usage: is_symmetric (x {,tol})
##
## If x is symmetric, return the dimension of x, otherwise, return 0.
##
## See also: size, rows, columns, length, is_matrix, is_scalar,
## is_square, is_vector

## Author: A. S. Hodel <scotte@eng.auburn.edu>
## Created: August 1993
## Adapted-By: jwe

function retval = is_symmetric (x,tol)

  retval = 0;

  if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2)
    [nr, nc] = size (x);
    if (nr == nc && nr > 0)
      if (nargin == 1)
	tol = eps;
      endif
      if (isstr (x))
	x = toascii (x);
      endif
      if (norm (x - x') / norm(x) <= tol)
        retval = nr;
      endif
    endif
  else
    usage ("is_symmetric (x {,tol})");
  endif

endfunction