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### Robust algorithm for $2 \times 2$ SVD

See https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/861674/decompose-a-2d-arbitrary-transform-into-only-scaling-and-rotation (sorry, I would have put that in a comment but I've registered just to post this ...
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### Robust algorithm for $2 \times 2$ SVD

@Pedro Gimeno "I doubt it can be any more robust than that." Challenge accepted. I noticed the usual approach is to use trig functions like atan2. Intuitively, there shouldn't be a need to use trig ...
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### Computational method to compute both the (log) determinant and inverse of a matrix

The LU decomposition will give you what you want with only $\tfrac{2}{3}n^3 + \mathcal{O}(n^2)$ FLOPs. The linear system is solved by solving two triangular systems. The determinant is the product ...

### Robust algorithm for $2 \times 2$ SVD

I needed an algorithm that has little branching (hopefully CMOVs) no trigonometric function calls high numerical accuracy even with 32 bit floats We want to calculate $c_1, s_1, c_2, s_2, \sigma_1$ ...
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### Solving $A=B+AB$ without matrix inverse

If $A$ and $B$ are real symmetric, then $A=B+AB$ if and only if the product $AB$ is also real symmetric. In turn, $AB=BA$ holds if any only if $A$ and $B$ share a common eigendecomposition. This ...
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### Rapidly determining whether or not a dense matrix is of low rank

The problem, of course, is that computing the true rank (e.g., via a QR decomposition) is not really any cheaper than computing a low-rank representation of the matrix. The best you can probably do ...
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