Cleve Moler

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Pizza!
Given a circular pizza with radius _z_ and thickness _a_, return the pizza's volume. [ _z_ is first input argument.] Non-scor...

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Computers That I Have Known
Nick Higham's Numerical Linear Algebra group at the University of Manchester is hosting a conference celebrating Jack...

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Redirecting arithmetic functions from LAPACK/BLAS?
It might help to use the transposes of your arrays or interchange the order ot your loops. MATLAB stores 2-d arrays by coluumns...

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Complexity of Computing the Eigenvalues of a Symmetric Matrix
I am giving a five-minute talk today, May 26, at the virtual seminar on Complexity of Matrix Computations. Here are my...

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Computing Eigenvalues of Symmetric Matrices
Computing Eigenvalues of Symmetric MatricesSee revision.Get the MATLAB code (requires JavaScript) ...

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Bringing Back the Bucky Ball
The Bucky Ball provides an elegant example of a graph, the connectivity of the Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome.We are also...

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Solving Commodious Linear Systems
This is about linear systems with fewer equations than variables; A*x = b where the m -by- n matrix A has fewer rows that...

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Easter Sunday and April Fools
What do the years 2018, 2029 and 2040 have in common? They are the only years in the 21st century when Easter Sunday occurs...

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“Odd Rock” on Mars Exhibits (Almost) Magic Square
A news story released yesterday, March 31,by c|net has the headline... read more >>

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Mount St. Helens and Matrix Rank
What do Mount St. Helens and the rank of a matrix have in common? The answer is the MATLAB function peaks. Let me explain....

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Round, With Tie Breakers, Round Three
I recently published Round, With Ties to Even and followed that with Round Two. Then, in an email, Andy Bartlett pointed...

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Round, With Tie Breakers, Round Two
I published Round, With Ties to Even a couple of days ago. Steve Eddins and Daniel Dolan immediately had substantive...

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Round, With Ties to Even
We are considering a MATLAB Enhancement Request to support options for round(x) when x is exactly halfway between two...

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CR and CAB, Rank Revealing Matrix Factorizations
The rank of a linear transformation is a fundamental concept in linear algebra and matrix factorizations are fundamental...

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Holiday Greetings 2020
I want to share some colorful images featuring the seven colors in the MATLAB axes color order.... read more >>

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A Famous Equation, x^2 = 2^x
A recent episode of the popular YouTube channel "blackpenredpen" is about solutions to the famous equation... read more...

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Paul Saylor, 1939-2020
My friend Paul Saylor passed away on November 7th.... read more >>

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Anticipating Official U.S. Census for 2020
On October 13, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Census Bureau could stop the 2020 census early. Here is a link to...

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Cleve_Lab
A Mathematical Exploratium

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Notes on CR and west0479
My post a few days ago, Gil Strang and the CR Matrix Factorization, generated a lot of email. Here is the resulting...

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Gil Strang and the CR Matrix Factorization
My friend Gil Strang is known for his lectures from MIT course 18.06, Linear Algebra, which are available on MIT...

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Two Dubious Ways to Solve A*X = X*B, part 1
Recently, I had email from a student in Italy.... read more >>

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Addition to SVD and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate
I have added this section to my post a few weeks ago about using the SVD to measure partisanship in the United States...

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SVD Quantifies Increasing Partisanship in the U. S. Senate
Many observers have noted that the United States Senate has become increasingly partisan in recent years. Votes are being...

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Collatz Inequality and Singleton Expansion
I've blogged about this gem from Lothar Collatz (1910-1990) before, but it deserves to be repeated. Especially since it now...

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Serendipity, Kuramoto, Colleagues and Backslash
Alexa tells me that the definition of serendipity is "the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or...

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A Mesmerizing Animation
A Mesmerizing AnimationWe are working on a paper about the Kuramoto model of self-synchronizing oscillators. This animation...

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History of MATLAB Published by the ACM
"A History of MATLAB", a 67-page paper that Jack Little and I have written, has been published by the ACM, the Association...

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Moler on E-NLA, Wednesday, May 27
It has been a while since I made a blog post. It is because I am preparing to give a talk next week on"The Evolution of...

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Precise Setting of a Delicate Parameter with “pibar”
(A slight revision of the post I made a few hours ago.)... read more >>

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