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- %OP%VS4.13 (28-Apr-92), Gerald L Fitton, R4000 5966 9904 9938
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- %C%Matrix Inversion
- %C%by Jonathan Ormand & Gerald L Fitton
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- The only contribution I've has to this discussion so far is from
- Jonathan Ormond. He has provided a PipeDream spreadsheet inversion
- algorithm for a 4 by 4 matrix using co-determinants. It works well. I
- have included his application as the file [InvMat4] on the monthly
- disc. The only time it fails is if the matrix is 'ill conditioned' (ie
- when its determinant is near zero). I have searched through my memory
- banks and the phrase 'pivotal condensation' came into my mind.
-
- I think I remember using a method having that name which was reputed to
- be more amenable to 'computerisation' (I hate that word)! I can't find
- any notes about it but my recollection is that you extend the matrix
- (to the right) with a unit matrix and then manipulate rows (adding
- multiples of one row to another) until the original part of the matrix
- becomes a unit matrix. My recollection, which is only half remembered,
- is that, when the left half has become a unit matrix, the right hand
- half of the extended matrix is the inverse of the original.
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