Mercurial > octave
changeset 29916:0bf14f708dc6
NEWS: more notes about changes to mldivide.
* NEWS: more notes about changes to mldivide.
| author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:18:00 -0700 |
| parents | 28a39ddabbfc |
| children | 8c7685d70cf3 |
| files | NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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.