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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2008 / ib / Paper 2 / 18D / b / Solution by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An orthogonal matrix preserves the Euclidean norm: . For every candidate ,
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The two objective functions agree pointwise, so their minimizers coincide, whether or not the minimizer is unique.
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