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Certainly it's artificial to restrict oneself to primitive concepts, unless of course you don't know about eigenvalues yet or forgot it all. :) And it is an exe
by gruseom 15y ago
Certainly it's artificial to restrict oneself to primitive concepts, unless of course you don't know about eigenvalues yet or forgot it all. :) And it is an exercise from the earliest chapter, so we're supposed to stay in simple-land.
Did you look at my solution (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3129023 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3129023)? There's no higher-level theory in it. Is it brute force? Not sure. At least it doesn't require solving any element-wise equations.
- impendia 15y agoIt's elegant, but as far as I can see, your argument only holds for the single matrix C which you describe.