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## -*- texinfo -*-
## Greater-than operator for two quaternions.
## Used by Octave for "q1 > q2".
## The ordering is lexicographic.

## Author: Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reichlin@gmail.com>
## Created: December 2013
## Version: 0.1

function bool = gt (a, b)

  if (nargin != 2)
    error ("quaternion: gt: this is a binary operator");
  endif

  a = quaternion (a);
  b = quaternion (b);

  bool = (a.w > b.w) ...
         | (a.w == b.w  &  a.x > b.x) ...
         | (a.w == b.w  &  a.x == b.x  &  a.y > b.y) ...
         | (a.w == b.w  &  a.x == b.x  &  a.y == b.y  &  a.z > b.z);

endfunction


%!test
%! a = quaternion (2, 3, 4, 5);
%! b = quaternion (2, -3, 4, 5);
%! assert (a > b, true);
%! assert (b > a, false);
