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  2. Imaginary number - Wikipedia

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    An imaginary number is the product of a real number and the imaginary unit i, [note 1] which is defined by its property i 2 = −1. [1] [2] The square of an imaginary number bi is −b 2. For example, 5i is an imaginary number, and its square is −25. The number zero is considered to be both real and imaginary. [3]

  3. Complex number - Wikipedia

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    A complex number can be visually represented as a pair of numbers (a, b) forming a vector on a diagram called an Argand diagram, representing the complex plane. Re is the real axis, Im is the imaginary axis, and i is the "imaginary unit", that satisfies i 2 = −1.

  4. Imaginary unit - Wikipedia

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    The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number (i) is a mathematical constant that is a solution to the quadratic equation x 2 + 1 = 0. Although there is no real number with this property, i can be used to extend the real numbers to what are called complex numbers , using addition and multiplication .

  5. Difference of two squares - Wikipedia

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    The difference of two squares can also be illustrated geometrically as the difference of two square areas in a plane.In the diagram, the shaded part represents the difference between the areas of the two squares, i.e. .

  6. QR decomposition - Wikipedia

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    where R 1 is an n×n upper triangular matrix, 0 is an (m − n)×n zero matrix, Q 1 is m×n, Q 2 is m×(m − n), and Q 1 and Q 2 both have orthogonal columns. Golub & Van Loan (1996 , §5.2) call Q 1 R 1 the thin QR factorization of A ; Trefethen and Bau call this the reduced QR factorization . [ 1 ]

  7. Cholesky decomposition - Wikipedia

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    In linear algebra, the Cholesky decomposition or Cholesky factorization (pronounced / ʃ ə ˈ l ɛ s k i / shə-LES-kee) is a decomposition of a Hermitian, positive-definite matrix into the product of a lower triangular matrix and its conjugate transpose, which is useful for efficient numerical solutions, e.g., Monte Carlo simulations.

  8. Matrix decomposition - Wikipedia

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    Applicable to: square, hermitian, positive definite matrix Decomposition: =, where is upper triangular with real positive diagonal entries Comment: if the matrix is Hermitian and positive semi-definite, then it has a decomposition of the form = if the diagonal entries of are allowed to be zero

  9. Eigendecomposition of a matrix - Wikipedia

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    Let A be a square n × n matrix with n linearly independent eigenvectors q i (where i = 1, ..., n).Then A can be factored as = where Q is the square n × n matrix whose i th column is the eigenvector q i of A, and Λ is the diagonal matrix whose diagonal elements are the corresponding eigenvalues, Λ ii = λ i.