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Singular Values & the SVD · Hard problem

Let A=(122−2)A = \begin{pmatrix}1 & 2\\2 & -2\end{pmatrix} and let A1A_1 be its best rank-one approximation in the spectral norm (the truncated SVD). Find the entry of A1A_1 in row 2, column 2.