I'm not sure which component of what. It's missing the object of the preposition "of".
Also in that section, you refer to the eigenvectors of R, \sigma_1 and \sigma_2. Because there's no Oxford comma, I thought the sigmas were the eigenvectors of R. But the "type/shape checking" against the other expressions suggest that the sigmas are scalar. I assume those are the eigenvalues of R?
In an unrelated note: really great article.
Edit: Looks like some of my comments overlap with #68.
Specifically on this section:
I'm not sure which component of what. It's missing the object of the preposition "of".
Also in that section, you refer to the eigenvectors of R, \sigma_1 and \sigma_2. Because there's no Oxford comma, I thought the sigmas were the eigenvectors of R. But the "type/shape checking" against the other expressions suggest that the sigmas are scalar. I assume those are the eigenvalues of R?
In an unrelated note: really great article.
Edit: Looks like some of my comments overlap with #68.