Well, none of the suggested solutions for computing the rank of a matrix really suited my needs, as dragging in something like BLAS introduce more cost than just integrating the bed-and-breakfast library into my own library. So let me try a different track. My real problem is that I've got a list of points in R3 and want to decide if they determine a plane, meaning they are coplanar but not colinear. Similarly, given a list of points in R2, I want to verify that they aren't colinear. Both of these can be done by converting the list of points to a matrix and finding the rank of the matrix, but I only use the rank function in the definitions of colinear and coplanar. Maybe there's an easier way to tackle the underlying problems. Anyone got a suggestion for such?