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[Philipp Moeller <>]

sainyam galhotra 
<>
 writes:

> Hi
>
> I am a sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi  majoring in
> Computer Science. I have a strong mathematical and programming
> background. I am highly enthusiastic to work in CGAL during the
> summer. I have my own project idea in my mind.
>
> My project idea is to make libraries that could compute the singular
> value decomposition( SVD ), QR factorization, LU factorization, Eigen
> value calculator, Least square problem solutions in C++. My main aim
> is to implement this with the best efficiency like the Gauss newton's
> method, householder's transform etc.

[...snip...]

A quick question:

Aren't all of those in Eigen [1] already? What would be the value gain
in re-implementing them?

Cheers,
Philipp Moeller

[1] : http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page