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29 Oct 2008 8:15 Re: a question about gaussian elimination
Hi,
The final solution is correct. The Gauss elimination method requires the augmented matrix to be in upper triangular form. The first element necessarily need not be a '1'. It can be anything. The final solution must be in a upper triangular matrix form which looks like
