## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 David Bateman
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {[@var{d}, @var{rcond}] = } spdet (@var{a})
## This function has been deprecated.  Use @code{det} instead.
## @end deftypefn

## Deprecated in version 3.2

function varargout = spdet (varargin)
  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
	     "spdet is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use det instead");
  endif

  varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
  [ varargout{:} ] = det (varargin{:});

endfunction