doug
(Douglas Youvan)
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Who would you credit for discovering the SVD method?
Who would have first coded SVD?
Does 1984 Waterloo ring a bell?
(That was the indirect origin of my first copy on reel to reel in C, but I do not know who wrote it.)
danl
(Daniel Lichtblau)
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The History section strikes me as likely to be accurate. Also it has to predate 1984 since it was earlier in EISPACK.