Conditioning and accurate computations with Pascal matrices

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Abstract

A result on the ill-conditioning of Pascal matrices is proved. However, it is shown that bidiagonal factorizations of Pascal matrices can be applied to perform computations with high relative accuracy.

MSC

65F05
65F15
65F35

Keywords

Pascal matrices
Bidiagonal factorizations
Accurate computations
Conditioning
Vandermonde matrices

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