A real square matrix is an orthogonal matrix when , equivalently its columns form an orthonormal basis. Here is the transpose and the identity matrix. For every vector ,
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Taking nonnegative square roots proves
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Thus an orthogonal matrix preserves the Euclidean norm.

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