On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Pauli Virtanen <[email protected]> wrote: > 16.02.2012 14:54, [email protected] kirjoitti: > [clip] >> If I interpret you correctly, this should be a svd ticket, or an svd >> ticket as "duplicate" ? > > I think it should be a multivariate normal ticket. > > "Fixing" SVD is in my opinion not sensible: its only guarantee is that A > = U S V^H down to numerical precision and S are sorted.
I agree, but the behavior is still surprising -- people reasonably expect something like svd to be deterministic. So there's probably a doc bug for alerting people that their reasonable expectation is, in fact, wrong :-). -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
