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+## Copyright (C) 2010 Jaroslav Hajek
+##
+## 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.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## 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} {} powerset (@var{a})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} powerset (@var{a}, "rows")
+##
+## Return the cell array of all subsets of the set @var{a}.
+##
+## @end deftypefn
+## @seealso{unique, union, setxor, setdiff, ismember}
+
+function p = powerset (a, byrows_arg)
+
+  byrows = false;
+
+  if (nargin == 2)
+    if (! strcmpi (byrows_arg, "rows"))
+      error ("expecting third argument to be \"rows\"");
+    elseif (iscell (a))
+      warning ("setdiff: \"rows\" not valid for cell arrays");
+    else
+      byrows = true;
+    endif
+  elseif (nargin != 1)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  if (byrows)
+    a = unique (a, byrows_arg);
+    n = rows (a);
+  else
+    a = unique (a);
+    n = numel (a);
+  endif
+
+  if (n == 0)
+    p = [];
+  else
+    if (n > 32)
+      error ("powerset: not implemented for more than 32 elements");
+    endif
+
+    ## Logical rep
+    b = reshape (bitunpack (uint32 (0:2^n-1)), 32, 2^n)(1:n,:);
+    ## Convert to indices and lengths.
+    [i, k] = find (b);
+    k = sum (b, 1);
+
+    ## Index and split.
+    if (byrows)
+      p = mat2cell (a(i,:), k, columns (a));
+    else
+      if (rows (a) == 1)
+        p = mat2cell (a(i), 1, k);
+      else
+        p = mat2cell (a(i), k, 1);
+      endif
+    endif
+  endif
+
+endfunction