--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Mar 19 16:28:23 2008 -0400
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Mar 19 21:22:20 2008 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-03-19  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
+
+	* linear-algebra/subspace.m: New function.
+
 2008-03-19  Emil Lucretiu  <emil@la.mine.nu>
 
 	* signal/sinetone.m: Ensure integral number of samples.
@@ -35,6 +39,10 @@
 
 	* plot/__go_draw_axes__.m: Use correct symbol codes.
 
+2008-03-17  Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
+
+	* linear-algebra/subspace.m: New function.
+
 2008-03-14  Kai Habel  <kai.habel@gmx.de>
 
         * plot/__go_draw_axes__.m: Expicitly set gnuplot user

--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/Makefile.in	Wed Mar 19 16:28:23 2008 -0400
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/Makefile.in	Wed Mar 19 21:22:20 2008 -0400
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
 
 SOURCES = __norm__.m commutation_matrix.m cond.m condest.m cross.m \
   dmult.m dot.m duplication_matrix.m housh.m krylov.m krylovb.m logm.m \
-  null.m onenormest.m orth.m qzhess.m rank.m rref.m trace.m vec.m vech.m
+  null.m onenormest.m orth.m qzhess.m rank.m rref.m subspace.m trace.m \
+  vec.m vech.m
 
 DISTFILES = $(addprefix $(srcdir)/, Makefile.in $(SOURCES))
 

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/subspace.m	Wed Mar 19 21:22:20 2008 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+## Copyright (C) 2008 VZLU Prague, a.s., Czech Republic
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
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+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{angle} =} subspace (@var{a}, @var{B})
+## Determine the largest principal angle between two subspaces
+## spanned by columns of matrices @var{a} and @var{b}.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
+
+## reference:
+## [1]  Andrew V. Knyazev, Merico E. Argentati:
+##   Principal Angles between Subspaces in an A-Based Scalar Product: 
+##  Algorithms and Perturbation Estimates.  
+##  SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol. 23 no. 6, pp. 2008-2040
+##
+## other texts are also around...
+
+function ang = subspace (a, b)
+
+  a = orth (a);
+  b = orth (b);
+  c = a'*b;
+  scos = min (svd (c));
+  if (scos^2 > 1/2)
+    if (columns (a) >= columns (b))
+      c = b - a*c;
+    else
+      c = a - b*c';
+    endif
+    ssin = max (svd (c));
+    ang = asin (min (ssin, 1));
+  else
+    ang = acos (scos);
+  endif
+
+endfunction