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CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION

Specialty Definition: CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION

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1. An equation defining the characteristics of a set of partial differential equations.2. A linear algebraic equation determining the eigenvalues or free waves of a boundary-value problem. See characteristic value problem. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Characteristic equation

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In mathematics, in the field of linear algebra, a scalar is an eigenvalue of an n-by-n matrix if satisfies the characteristic equation:

where In is the Identity matrix.

For example, given a matrix P:

This would be the Characteristic Equation for P:

The resulting polynomial is the Characteristic polynomial.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Characteristic equation."

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Crosswords: CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION

Specialty definitions using "CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION": eigenvalueslatent roots. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 48 41 52 41 43 54 45 52 49 53 54 49 43      45 51 55 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000101 01010001 01010101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#69 &#81 &#85 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0041 0052 0041 0043 0054 0045 0052 0049 0053 0054 0049 0043      0045 0051 0055 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374235523537543952435354433723951553554434948

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