# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <rik@octave.org>
# Date 1627075080 25200
# Node ID 0bf14f708dc67506f1fdc0c1f0d9f6087d999ce5
# Parent  28a39ddabbfca26215cf9b58b28f89e943d2efc0
NEWS: more notes about changes to mldivide.

* NEWS: more notes about changes to mldivide.

diff -r 28a39ddabbfc -r 0bf14f708dc6 NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Fri Jul 23 11:59:40 2021 -0400
+++ b/NEWS	Fri Jul 23 14:18:00 2021 -0700
@@ -76,8 +76,10 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
-- The `mldivide` function (i.e., the `\` operator) now uses a LU
-decomposition to solve (close to) singular full square matrices.
+- The `mldivide` function (i.e., the `\` operator) now uses an LU
+decomposition to solve nearly singular full square matrices.  This is
+Matlab-compatible and yields results which more nearly minimize `norm
+(A*x - b)`.  Previously, Octave computed a minimum-norm solution.
 
 - The `whos` function now displays an additional attribute 's' when
 the variable is a sparse type.