[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Singular Values

Dave Stinchcombe dars@soton.ac.uk
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:45:24 +0100 (BST)


Dear Folks,

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 ?

Yours gratefully 

Dave Stinchcombe


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