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If you then will read the Storie, First, prepare you to be sorry That you never knew till now, Either whom to love, or how: But be glad, as soon with me, When you know, that this is she, Of whose Beautie it was sung, She shall make the old man young, Keepe the middle age at stay, And let nothing high decay, Till she be the reason why, All the world for love may die.
However, after its destruction in 1860 by French and British troops, it was left to decay, and the court’s attention turned to restoring the new Summer Palace.
Raves for this adaptation of a play by actor/writer Wallace Shawn ( My Dinner With Andre ), which features three intellectuals holding forth on the decay of high culture ("like a surreal extended edition of The Charlie Rose Show ," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times ). The script "flows along seamlessly ...
But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
In this case, the large size of the first singular value indicates that u 1 and v 1 capture most of the information in A . These values along the diagonal of D are called the singular values of A . Matrices that contain mostly redundant columns (low-rank matrices) have singular values that rapidly decay, because the matrix is efficiently spanned by a small number of vectors.