A tiny search index stores how often each of three terms appears in each of two documents:
| Doc 1 | Doc 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| term 1 | ||
| term 2 | ||
| term 3 |
As a term-by-document matrix,
Compressing this index means writing and keeping only the largest singular value — the single latent topic that explains the most of the data. That gives the best rank-one approximation
where and are the unit-length left and right singular vectors belonging to , and is taken with the sign that makes .
is the count table the compressed index would reconstruct. You want to know what it reconstructs for term 2 in document 1 — the entry of in row 2, column 1, where the original count was .
What is the entry of in row 2, column 1? Round your answer to 3 decimal places.