Re: [Help-gsl] [Fwd: gsl_linalg_householder_mh question]

[Brian Gough]

At Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:35 +0100,
William Astle wrote:
> it seems like gsl_linalg_householder_mh  forces v(0)=1.0 is this 
> correct? I guess there is no loss of generality but it seems odd, could 
> some one explain to me?

Hello,

It allows storage of the components in-place - see Golub & Van Loan,
Section 5.1.3 "Computing the Householder Vector" for more details.

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