diary on A=gallery(3) A = -149 -50 -154 537 180 546 -27 -9 -25 [V,D]=eig(A) V = 0.3162 -0.4041 -0.1391 -0.9487 0.9091 0.9740 -0.0000 0.1010 -0.1789 D = 1.0000 0 0 0 2.0000 0 0 0 3.0000 V*D*inv(V) ans = -149.0000 -50.0000 -154.0000 537.0000 180.0000 546.0000 -27.0000 -9.0000 -25.0000 [U,S,V] = svd(A) U = -0.2691 -0.6798 0.6822 0.9620 -0.1557 0.2243 -0.0463 0.7167 0.6959 S = 817.7597 0 0 0 2.4750 0 0 0 0.0030 V = 0.6823 -0.6671 0.2990 0.2287 -0.1937 -0.9540 0.6944 0.7193 0.0204 diary off