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Singular Values & the SVD · Challenge problem

The best rank-one approximation of D=(5003)D = \begin{pmatrix}5&0\\0&3\end{pmatrix} keeps the top singular piece and drops the rest. Compute the approximation ERROR (in the spectral norm) — the size of what was dropped.