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Hi,

I need to write a paper on the use of Singular value Decomposition in
numerical Algebra for numerical maths.  The main problem I'm having is
finding a paper or the sort which describes the svd w.r.t other
algorithms interms of performance and various problems.  

I realise SVD's are great for overconditioned problmes, but how are they
better than say a QR factorization.  As far as I can figure, alot of
algorithms use QR and the sort to compute the svd.  what about w.r.t
eigen value problems.

In short, I have a lot of info telling me that SVD's are great for
overconditioned systems and least squares but not much else.  Is this
the only use of SVD's? for least squares style problems???

Cheers
Craig
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