[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Bug in LinearAlgebra

James Crotinger jac@gandalf.llnl.gov
Tue, 15 Oct 96 14:08:56 PDT


tim@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu writes:
 > ================
 >  1.  0.  0.
 >  0.  1.  0.
 >  0.  0.  1.
 > 
 >  1.  1.  1.    # These are not the eigenvalues, where is -1.

Singular values are, by definition, positive. The nonzero singular
values are the positive square root of the eigenvalues of A' * A
(where ' denotes transpose).

But the determinant is indeed wrong. 

  Jim

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