diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h b/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h
index 940eabd92..09a44f811 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/DenseBase.h
@@ -204,11 +204,6 @@ template<typename Derived> class DenseBase
     typedef typename internal::conditional<internal::is_same<typename internal::traits<Derived>::XprKind,MatrixXpr >::value,
                                  PlainMatrix, PlainArray>::type PlainObject;
 
-    /** \returns the number of nonzero coefficients which is in practice the number
-      * of stored coefficients. */
-    EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_CONSTEXPR
-    inline Index nonZeros() const { return size(); }
-
     /** \returns the outer size.
       *
       * \note For a vector, this returns just 1. For a matrix (non-vector), this is the major dimension
diff --git a/unsupported/test/kronecker_product.cpp b/unsupported/test/kronecker_product.cpp
index b5b764c65..3bac01db4 100644
--- a/unsupported/test/kronecker_product.cpp
+++ b/unsupported/test/kronecker_product.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void check_kronecker_product(const MatrixType& ab)
 {
   VERIFY_IS_EQUAL(ab.rows(), 6);
   VERIFY_IS_EQUAL(ab.cols(), 6);
-  VERIFY_IS_EQUAL(ab.nonZeros(),  36);
+  VERIFY_IS_EQUAL(ab.size(),  36);
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(ab.coeff(0,0), -0.4017367630386106);
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(ab.coeff(0,1),  0.1056863433932735);
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(ab.coeff(0,2), -0.7255206194554212);