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<p><font face="serif">On the test tomorrow you will have at least
one opportunity to factor a matrix. I recommend that you focus
on PARTIAL PIVOTING, but not SCALED PARTIAL PIVOTING or MAXIMAL/COMPLETE
pivoting. </font>I will not ask you to do any factorizations
using LU/PLU/LDL, Choleski, or Crout methods without providing you
with algorithmic pseudocode. <br>
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<p>Review the different matrix types (positive definite, symmetric,
singular, diagonally dominant, etc.) as well as determinants and
inverses.<br>
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<p>Only other big topic is differential equations -- Euler,
Runge-Kutta, Systems...</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj">http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj</a>
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