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+## Copyright (C) 1999 Peter Ekberg
+##
+## 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 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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+## 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, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} rosser ()
+##
+## Returns the Rosser matrix. This is a difficult test case used to test
+## eigenvalue algorithms.
+##
+## @seealso{hankel, vander, sylvester_matrix, hilb, invhilb, toeplitz
+##           hadamard, wilkinson, compan, pascal}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Peter Ekberg
+##         (peda)
+
+function retval = rosser ()
+
+  if (nargin != 0)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  retval = [611,   196,  -192,   407,    -8,   -52,   -49,    29;
+            196,   899,   113,  -192,   -71,   -43,    -8,   -44;
+           -192,   113,   899,   196,    61,    49,     8,    52;
+            407,  -192,   196,   611,     8,    44,    59,   -23;
+             -8,   -71,    61,     8,   411,  -599,   208,   208;
+            -52,   -43,    49,    44,  -599,   411,   208,   208;
+            -49,    -8,     8,    59,   208,   208,    99,  -911;
+             29,   -44,    52,   -23,   208,   208,  -911,    99];
+endfunction