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Unread 08-03-2009, 20:31
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Re: Help on OPR and DPR

Somewhat resurrecting a dead thread but.... Does the matrix on that sheet even work with Cholesky Decomposition? I entered it into Mathematica and an online calculator and both returned errors (possibly because of those zeroes in there...). If the reason is because of the zeroes, won't that not work because you're not going to be playing with every team and there will be some zeroes in the chart (then again, since I don't exactly understand how the decomposition works, I could easily be very wrong).

Also, for those using inverse matrices, what happens when the matrix does not have an inverse ? Don't think it'll happen, but, it's a possibility (btw the example on the posted sheet also does not have an inverse). Even better... If we're keeping track of relatively detailed robot performance anyways, does it even matter?
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