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Gives a bound for the distance of a matrix having an ill-conditioned eigenvalue problem from a matrix having a multiple eigenvalue which is generally sharper than that which has been published hitherto.
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Wilkinson, J.H. Note on matrices with a very ill-conditioned eigenproblem. Numer. Math. 19, 176–178 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402528
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402528