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The condition of a certain matrix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Todd
John Todd
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National Applied Mathematics Laboratories, National Bureau of StandardsWashington, 25, D.C., U.S.A.
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1. The following sentence occurs in a recent paper ((1), p. 54): we do not understand precisely what it means, but we shall show that the idea behind it can be put on a reasonably quantitative basis: ‘In the vocabulary of solvers of simultaneous equations, the operator (1, −2, 1) tends to lead to ill-conditioning when the number of equations is large.’

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1950 , pp. 116 - 118
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1950

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