Scaling for Numerical Stability in Gaussian Elimination

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Scaling for Numerical Stability in Gaussian Elimination

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Volume 26 , Issue 3 (July 1979) table of contents

Pages: 494 - 526

Year of Publication: 1979

ISSN:0004-5411

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Robert D. Skeel

Department of Computer Science, 222 Digital Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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