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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} null (@var{a}, @var{tol})
## Return an orthonormal basis of the null space of @var{a}.
##
## The dimension of the null space is taken as the number of singular
## values of @var{a} not greater than @var{tol}.  If the argument @var{tol}
## is missing, it is computed as
##
## @example
## max (size (@var{a})) * max (svd (@var{a})) * eps
## @end example
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Created: 24 December 1993.
## Adapted-By: jwe

function retval = null (A, tol)

  [U, S, V] = svd (A);

  [rows, cols] = size (A);

  [S_nr, S_nc] = size (S);

  if (S_nr == 1 || S_nc == 1)
    s = S(1);
  else
    s = diag (S);
  endif

  if (nargin == 1)
    tol = max (size (A)) * s (1) * eps;
  elseif (nargin != 2)
    usage ("null (A, tol)");
  endif

  rank = sum (s > tol);

  if (rank < cols)
    retval = V (:, rank+1:cols);
  else
    retval = zeros (cols, 0);
  endif

endfunction
