[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Singular Values

[Doug Heisterkamp]

> 
> > 
> > > can any one tell me the reason why the
> > > LinearAlgerba.singular_value_decomposition routine returns U,S,W^T, where
> > > the matrix being decomposed is U*S*W^T, when it seems more
> > > conventional to return U,S,W ?
> > 

The underlying LAPACK routines return the transpose.  Note: if you are using
a complex matrix, the conjugate transpose is returned.

Doug Heisterkamp
drh@cse.unl.edu


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