Package: python2.3-numeric-ext
Version: 23.8-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello,

the doc string of the linear_least_squares function in
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric/LinearAlgebra.py
contains several typos.  These can be fixed with the following
patch:

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--- LinearAlgebra.py~   2003-08-06 19:03:48.000000000 +0100
+++ LinearAlgebra.py    2005-03-31 19:38:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -389,11 +389,11 @@
 where x minimizes 2-norm(|b - Ax|) 
       resids is the sum square residuals
       rank is the rank of A
-      s is an rank of the singual values of A in desending order
+      s is an rank of the singular values of A in descending order
 
 If b is a matrix then x is also a matrix with corresponding columns.
 If the rank of A is less than the number of columns of A or greater than
-the numer of rows, then residuals will be returned as an empty array
+the number of rows, then residuals will be returned as an empty array
 otherwise resids = sum((b-dot(A,x)**2).
 Singular values less than s[0]*rcond are treated as zero.
 """
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I hope this helps,
Jochen

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Versions of packages python2.3-numeric-ext depends on:
ii  atlas3-altivec [liblapac 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libg2c0                  1:3.3.5-12      Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
ii  python2.3                2.3.5-2         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.3-numeric        23.8-1          Numerical (matrix-oriented) Mathem
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3

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