redhat man page for sppequ

SPPEQU(l)								 )								 SPPEQU(l)

NAME
       SPPEQU  -  compute  row and column scalings intended to equilibrate a symmetric positive definite matrix A in packed storage and reduce its
       condition number (with respect to the two-norm)

SYNOPSIS
       SUBROUTINE SPPEQU( UPLO, N, AP, S, SCOND, AMAX, INFO )

	   CHARACTER	  UPLO

	   INTEGER	  INFO, N

	   REAL 	  AMAX, SCOND

	   REAL 	  AP( * ), S( * )

PURPOSE
       SPPEQU computes row and column scalings intended to equilibrate a symmetric positive definite matrix A in packed  storage  and  reduce  its
       condition number (with respect to the two-norm). S contains the scale factors, S(i)=1/sqrt(A(i,i)), chosen so that the scaled matrix B with
       elements B(i,j)=S(i)*A(i,j)*S(j) has ones on the diagonal.  This choice of S puts the condition number of B within a factor N of the small-
       est possible condition number over all possible diagonal scalings.

ARGUMENTS
       UPLO    (input) CHARACTER*1
	       = 'U':  Upper triangle of A is stored;
	       = 'L':  Lower triangle of A is stored.

       N       (input) INTEGER
	       The order of the matrix A.  N >= 0.

       AP      (input) REAL array, dimension (N*(N+1)/2)
	       The  upper or lower triangle of the symmetric matrix A, packed columnwise in a linear array.  The j-th column of A is stored in the
	       array AP as follows: if UPLO = 'U', AP(i + (j-1)*j/2) = A(i,j) for 1<=i<=j; if UPLO = 'L', AP(i	+  (j-1)*(2n-j)/2)  =  A(i,j)  for
	       j<=i<=n.

       S       (output) REAL array, dimension (N)
	       If INFO = 0, S contains the scale factors for A.

       SCOND   (output) REAL
	       If  INFO = 0, S contains the ratio of the smallest S(i) to the largest S(i).  If SCOND >= 0.1 and AMAX is neither too large nor too
	       small, it is not worth scaling by S.

       AMAX    (output) REAL
	       Absolute value of largest matrix element.  If AMAX is very close to overflow or very close  to  underflow,  the	matrix	should	be
	       scaled.

       INFO    (output) INTEGER
	       = 0:  successful exit
	       < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value
	       > 0:  if INFO = i, the i-th diagonal element is nonpositive.

LAPACK version 3.0						   15 June 2000 							 SPPEQU(l)