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In mathematics, a triangular matrix is a special kind of square matrix.A square matrix is called lower triangular if all the entries above the main diagonal are zero. . Similarly, a square matrix is called upper triangular if all the entries below the main diagonal
A method analogous to piece-wise linear approximation but using only arithmetic instead of algebraic equations, uses the multiplication tables in reverse: the square root of a number between 1 and 100 is between 1 and 10, so if we know 25 is a perfect square (5 × 5), and 36 is a perfect square (6 × 6), then the square root of a number greater than or equal to 25 but less than 36, begins with ...
A symmetric real n × n matrix is called positive semidefinite if for all (here denotes the transpose, changing a column vector x into a row vector). A square real matrix is positive semidefinite if and only if = for some matrix B.
The result of fitting a set of data points with a quadratic function Conic fitting a set of points using least-squares approximation. In regression analysis, least squares is a parameter estimation method based on minimizing the sum of the squares of the residuals (a residual being the difference between an observed value and the fitted value provided by a model) made in the results of each ...
The golden-section search is a technique for finding an extremum (minimum or maximum) of a function inside a specified interval. For a strictly unimodal function with an extremum inside the interval, it will find that extremum, while for an interval containing multiple extrema (possibly including the interval boundaries), it will converge to one of them.