Lecture 12. 



We continued where I left off on Wednesday with some details on how to use permutation vectors and/or permutation matrices.
I illustrated the use of Matlab lu and Recktenwald's lupiv.

The discussion turned to some linear algebra and properties of systems that have unique solutions, no solutions, or infinitely many solutions. Some simple two dimensional examples were given as visual tools. Floating point arithmetic and rounding error introduces the concept of systems that may be ill conditioned.

We looked at vector and matrix norms,so that we could discuss conditioning and condition numbers, and how they effect the accuracy of a solution of a system of linear equations. 

Posted: Fri - October 6, 2006 at 01:04 PM          


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