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HOMOGEN Function |
The HOMOGEN function solves the homogeneous system of linear equations for . For at least one solution vector to exist, the matrix , , has to be of rank . The HOMOGEN function computes an column orthonormal matrix with the properties that and . In other words, the columns of form an orthonormal basis for the nullspace of .
If is ill-conditioned, rounding-error problems can occur in determining the correct rank of and in determining the correct number of solutions .
The following statements compute an example from Wilkinson and Reinsch (1971):
a = {22 10 2 3 7, 14 7 10 0 8, -1 13 -1 -11 3, -3 -2 13 -2 4, 9 8 1 -2 4, 9 1 -7 5 -1, 2 -6 6 5 1, 4 5 0 -2 2}; x = homogen(a); print x;
In addition, you can use the HOMOGEN function to determine the rank of an matrix where by counting the number of columns in the matrix .
If is an matrix, then, in addition to the memory allocated for the return matrix, the HOMOGEN function temporarily allocates an array for performing its computation.
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