The Economical Storage of Plane Rotations.

Abstract

The object of this note is to describe how plane rotations can be economically represented on a computer. Plane rotations, which have long been used in matrix computations to annihilate selected elements of a matrix, have the drawback that their definition requires two numbers. In this note it is shown how this information may be stably compacted into a single number. An appendix lists FORTRAN programs for solving linear equations which illustrate the technique described in the body of the note.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA004632

Entities

People

  • Gilbert W. Stewart

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Motion
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Mathematics
  • Rotation

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design