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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ia Paper 1 2A iii Solution by
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Rows two and three of both have zero in column one. Any rotation of these rows therefore preserves those zeros, so . In column two, . For , chooseThis gives . Again choose if both relevant entries are zero. Thus the successive Givens rotations have eliminated all entries below the diagonal without recreating earlier ones.
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