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• In a sense that will become clear, the importance<br />

of this result is that a real, symmetric matrix is<br />

“almost” diagonal. Thus when solving problems<br />

concerning real symmetric matrices it is very often<br />

useful to solve them first for diagonal matrices.<br />

This is frequently quite simple, and then extends<br />

to the general case via (4.3).<br />

• In the construction above we could have assumed,<br />

and sometimes will assume, that the eigenvalues<br />

were ordered before they and the eigenvectors<br />

were labelled: 1 ≥ ≥ .

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