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The first left multiplication swaps rows three and four. The final right multiplication swaps columns three and four, restoring the two diagonal ones to their diagonal positions while exchanging the earlier entries of the two rows. Therefore

ENE = 1 N_{21} N_{41} N_{31} 01 N_{42} N_{32} 00100001 .

(1)

The two specified zeros at positions

(3, 4)

and

(4, 3)

are important. Conjugation by this permutation matrix preserves this restricted lower triangular pattern; it would not preserve lower triangularity for an arbitrary matrix with a nonzero

(4, 3)

entry.

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