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[S] finding vectors orthogonal to a given set?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ranjan Maitra)
Thu Aug 5 10:51:38 1999

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ranjan Maitra <maitra@math.umbc.edu>
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Hi,

Can the following be done in Splus, please?

I have a set of orthogonal vectors: U_1,U_2,\ldots,U_k in R^n. I want to 
find a set of vectors U_{k+1},U_{k+2},\ldots,U_n such that they together
form an orthonormal basis in R^n. Can this be done using Splus routines?

Thanks,
Ranjan

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