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Given a square matrix A, a decomposition A = QR, where Q is unitary and R is upper triangular, is said to be the QR decomposition of A. In contrast to the LU decomposition, one does not fear a growth of entries in the case of the QR decomposition. (Why?)

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Tyrtyshnikov, E.E. (1997). Lecture 8. In: A Brief Introduction to Numerical Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8136-4_8

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