## Copyright (C) 2003 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} logm (@var{a})
## Compute the matrix logarithm of the square matrix @var{a}.  Note that
## this is currently implemented in terms of an eigenvalue expansion and
## needs to be improved to be more robust.
## @end deftypefn

function B = logm (A)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("B = logm (A)");
  endif

  [V, D] = eig (A);
  B = V * diag (log (diag (D))) * inv (V);

endfunction