Re: How to solve the system of linear equations?
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- Subject: [mg25439] Re: How to solve the system of linear equations?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
?SingularValues
"SingularValues[m] gives the singular value decomposition for a
numerical \
matrix m. The result is a list {u, w, v}, where w is the list of
singular \
values, and m can be written as
Conjugate[Transpose[u]].DiagonalMatrix[w].v."
Regards
Jens
Zak Levi wrote:
>
> Dear Mathematica experts,
>
> How to solve, in Mathematica, the system of linear equations,
>
> when a number of equations is larger than a number of variables.
>
> Another system easily pass to apply LSM in this case, but it seems to
> me that there is no such opportunity in Mathematica.
>
> As an application, given N>5 points at plane, how to calculate (the
> parameters) of best fitting ellipse.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> ZL