From 26129229ec12961687b0414c40e10e2880beec79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:44:43 -0400
Subject: doc updates/improvements

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 doc/TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.dox | 21 +++++----------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.dox')

diff --git a/doc/TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.dox b/doc/TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.dox
index ad8d0abea..203a05dd8 100644
--- a/doc/TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.dox
+++ b/doc/TopicLinearAlgebraDecompositions.dox
@@ -112,27 +112,15 @@ namespace Eigen {
     <tr><td colspan="9">\n Singular values and eigenvalues decompositions</td></tr>
 
     <tr>
-        <td>SVD</td>
-        <td>-</td>
-        <td>Average</td>
-        <td>Good</td>
-        <td>Yes</td>
-        <td>Singular values/vectors, least squares</td>
-        <td>Yes</td>
-        <td>Average</td>
-        <td>-</td>
-    </tr>
-
-    <tr>
-        <td>JacobiSVD</td>
+        <td>JacobiSVD (two-sided)</td>
         <td>-</td>
         <td>Slow (but fast for small matrices)</td>
-        <td>Proven</td>
+        <td>Excellent-Proven<sup><a href="#note3">3</a></sup></td>
         <td>Yes</td>
         <td>Singular values/vectors, least squares</td>
-        <td>-</td>
+        <td>Yes (and does least squares)</td>
         <td>Excellent</td>
-        <td>-</td>
+        <td>R-SVD</td>
     </tr>
 
     <tr>
@@ -251,6 +239,7 @@ namespace Eigen {
 <ul>
 <li><a name="note1">\b 1: </a>There exist two variants of the LDLT algorithm. Eigen's one produces a pure diagonal D matrix, and therefore it cannot handle indefinite matrices, unlike Lapack's one which produces a block diagonal D matrix.</li>
 <li><a name="note2">\b 2: </a>Eigenvalues, SVD and Schur decompositions rely on iterative algorithms. Their convergence speed depends on how well the eigenvalues are separated.</li>
+<li><a name="note3">\b 3: </a>Our JacobiSVD is two-sided, making for proven and optimal precision for square matrices. For non-square matrices, we have to use a QR preconditioner first. The default choice, ColPivHouseholderQR, is already very reliable, but if you want it to be proven, use FullPivHouseholderQR instead.
 </ul>
 
 \section TopicLinAlgTerminology Terminology
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