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This post was prompted by a question at the Eng-Tips forum:
LU Decomposition
which asked why Mathcad was generating LU matrices different to those calculated from the basic theory. The short answer was that there is more than one way to do LU decomposition. This post looks at the question in more detail, including examples of the basic procedures, and how and why the variations are used.