PINV PINV Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse Usage Calculates the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of a matrix. The general syntax for its use is y = pinv(A,tol) or for a default specification of the tolerance tol, y = pinv(A) For any m x n matrix A, the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse is the unique n x m matrix B that satisfies the following four conditions - A B A = A - B A B = B - (A B)' = A B - (B A)' = B A Also, it is true that B y is the minimum norm, least squares solution to A x = y. The Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse is computed from the singular value decomposition of A, with singular values smaller than tol being treated as zeros. If tol is not specified then it is chosen as tol = max(size(A)) * norm(A) * teps(A).