Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/digital-systems-linear-algebra-introduction-to-formal-proof/4/c/solution

No. Take the one-by-one matrices , . Both column spaces are , whereas has column space . More generally, taking cancels any nonzero column space. One always has , because each sum column lies in the vector subspace , but equality can fail through cancellation.

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