From 2c7ba2642519192bdfb77a4ffa26b16640ab5f77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 02:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add the spectral_radius() function.

---
 spectral_radius.m | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 spectral_radius.m

diff --git a/spectral_radius.m b/spectral_radius.m
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47cfd72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spectral_radius.m
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+function rho = spectral_radius(A)
+  %
+  % Compute the spectral radius of ``A``, which is not necessarily
+  % Hermitian.
+  %
+  % This is slow. Don't use it on big matrices.
+  %
+  % INPUT:
+  %
+  %   ``A`` -- The matrix whose spectral radius you want.
+  %
+  % OUTPUT:
+  %
+  %   ``rho`` -- The spectral radius of ``A``.
+  %
+  rho = max(abs(eig(A)));
+end
-- 
2.43.2