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From: jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: matrix manipulations (language)
Message-ID: <685@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 11 Nov 90 08:21:44 GMT
References: <6132@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <6132@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>, by YEE@rcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee):
> Hi there,
> 
> I just got a 48sx and in a class we do alot of matrix manipulations.  The
> two I'm primarily interested in is eiganvalues and eiganvectors of a matrix.

Sorry for correcting you - the name is eigenvalue and eigenvector. the word 
'eigen' stems from dutch and means something like 'own' or 'self'. I am proud
that at least a few words from my not so widespread language (about 20M people 
speak it) make it in international disciplins! :-)

Happy computing!
JC
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