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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/linalg/linalg.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/linalg/linalg.py b/numpy/linalg/linalg.py index 3d2d17057..072670d5c 100644 --- a/numpy/linalg/linalg.py +++ b/numpy/linalg/linalg.py @@ -687,8 +687,10 @@ def cholesky(a): Return the Cholesky decomposition, `L * L.H`, of the square matrix `a`, where `L` is lower-triangular and .H is the conjugate transpose operator (which is the ordinary transpose if `a` is real-valued). `a` must be - Hermitian (symmetric if real-valued) and positive-definite. Only `L` is - actually returned. + Hermitian (symmetric if real-valued) and positive-definite. No + checking is performed to verify whether `a` is Hermitian or not. + In addition, only the lower-triangular and diagonal elements of `a` + are used. Only `L` is actually returned. Parameters ---------- |