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 | | The underlying assumption of Gauss-Jordan elimination is that the coefficient array, A, can be factored into two matrices, L and U, where L is a lower triangular matrix and U is an upper triangular matrix. |
 | | Compared to the brute force calculation of the matrix inverse, Gauss-Jordan elimination on sparse matrices saves time by avoiding repeated multiplying by zeros and saves storage by taking advantage of sparsity. |
 | | In the system of equations shown below, A is the square (sparse) coefficient array, x is the vector of unknowns, and b is the vector of knowns. |
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