# Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
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function retval = rank (A, tol)

# usage: rank (a, tol)
#
# Return the rank of the matrix a.  The rank is taken to be the number
# of singular values of a that are greater than tol.
#
# If the second argument is omitted, it is taken to be
#
#   tol =  max (size (a)) * sigma (1) * eps;
#
# where eps is machine precision and sigma is the largest singular
# value of a.

  if (nargin == 1)
    sigma = svd (A);
    tolerance = max (size (A)) * sigma (1) * eps;
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    sigma = svd (A);
    tolerance = tol;
  else
    usage ("rank (A)");
  endif
  retval = sum (sigma > tolerance);

endfunction