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From: James Tursa <aclassyguywithaknotac@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: generate a positive semi-definite matrices??
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:52:17 GMT, James Tursa
<aclassyguywithaknotac@hotmail.com> wrote:
>A Hermitian matrix  (i.e., where isequal(M,M') is true ) *will* be
>positive semi-definite ...

*groan* ... I meant to write that a Hermitian matrix has real
eigenvalues, not that it is necessarily positive semi-definite.