Math 218: Matrices and Vectors

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Column Spaces

To check if v is in the column space of a matrix A, we can calculate A.augment(v, subdivide=True).rref() and look for a pivot in the augmented column.

More efficiently, we can use the Rouché–Capelli Theorem and directly check A.rank() == A.augment(v).rank().