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XIX.—On the Reciprocation of Certain Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

A. R. Collar
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics Department, the National Physical Laboratory.*
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In a recent paper (Frazer, Jones, and Skan, 1937) some methods are discussed for the approximate representation of functions by means of polynomials. The coefficients in the polynomials are determined by the equation

where c is the column of coefficients, h is a column of known constants, and M is a matrix which depends on the method of representation adopted. The present paper shows how the reciprocal matrix M-1 can be computed rapidly and simply in the two cases where M is a moment matrix or an alternant matrix.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1940

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