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 NAME
      SGELS - solve overdetermined or underdetermined real linear
      systems involving an M-by-N matrix A, or its transpose,
      using a QR or LQ factorization of A

 SYNOPSIS
      SUBROUTINE SGELS( TRANS, M, N, NRHS, A, LDA, B, LDB, WORK,
                        LWORK, INFO )

          CHARACTER     TRANS

          INTEGER       INFO, LDA, LDB, LWORK, M, N, NRHS

          REAL          A( LDA, * ), B( LDB, * ), WORK( LWORK )

 PURPOSE
      SGELS solves overdetermined or underdetermined real linear
      systems involving an M-by-N matrix A, or its transpose,
      using a QR or LQ factorization of A.  It is assumed that A
      has full rank.

      The following options are provided:

      1. If TRANS = 'N' and m >= n:  find the least squares solu-
      tion of
         an overdetermined system, i.e., solve the least squares
      problem
                      minimize || B - A*X ||.

      2. If TRANS = 'N' and m < n:  find the minimum norm solution
      of
         an underdetermined system A * X = B.

      3. If TRANS = 'T' and m >= n:  find the minimum norm solu-
      tion of
         an undetermined system A**T * X = B.

      4. If TRANS = 'T' and m < n:  find the least squares solu-
      tion of
         an overdetermined system, i.e., solve the least squares
      problem
                      minimize || B - A**T * X ||.

      Several right hand side vectors b and solution vectors x can
      be handled in a single call; they are stored as the columns
      of the M-by-NRHS right hand side matrix B and the N-by-NRHS
      solution matrix X.

 ARGUMENTS
      TRANS   (input) CHARACTER
              = 'N': the linear system involves A;

              = 'T': the linear system involves A**T.

      M       (input) INTEGER
              The number of rows of the matrix A.  M >= 0.

      N       (input) INTEGER
              The number of columns of the matrix A.  N >= 0.

      NRHS    (input) INTEGER
              The number of right hand sides, i.e., the number of
              columns of the matrices B and X. NRHS >=0.

      A       (input/output) REAL array, dimension (LDA,N)
              On entry, the M-by-N matrix A.  On exit, if M >= N,
              A is overwritten by details of its QR factorization
              as returned by SGEQRF; if M <  N, A is overwritten
              by details of its LQ factorization as returned by
              SGELQF.

      LDA     (input) INTEGER
              The leading dimension of the array A.  LDA >=
              max(1,M).

      B       (input/output) REAL array, dimension (LDB,NRHS)
              On entry, the matrix B of right hand side vectors,
              stored columnwise; B is M-by-NRHS if TRANS = 'N', or
              N-by-NRHS if TRANS = 'T'. On exit, B is overwritten
              by the solution vectors, stored columnwise:  if
              TRANS = 'N' and m >= n, rows 1 to n of B contain the
              least squares solution vectors; the residual sum of
              squares for the solution in each column is given by
              the sum of squares of elements N+1 to M in that
              column; if TRANS = 'N' and m < n, rows 1 to N of B
              contain the minimum norm solution vectors; if TRANS
              = 'T' and m >= n, rows 1 to M of B contain the
              minimum norm solution vectors; if TRANS = 'T' and m
              < n, rows 1 to M of B contain the least squares
              solution vectors; the residual sum of squares for
              the solution in each column is given by the sum of
              squares of elements M+1 to N in that column.

      LDB     (input) INTEGER
              The leading dimension of the array B. LDB >=
              MAX(1,M,N).

      WORK    (workspace) REAL array, dimension (LWORK)
              On exit, if INFO = 0, WORK(1) returns the optimal
              LWORK.

      LWORK   (input) INTEGER
              The dimension of the array WORK.  LWORK >= min(M,N)
              + MAX(1,M,N,NRHS).  For optimal performance, LWORK

              >= min(M,N) + MAX(1,M,N,NRHS) * NB where NB is the
              optimum block size.

      INFO    (output) INTEGER
              = 0:  successful exit
              < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal
              value