In the context of the Jordan Canonical Form, what are the entries located immediately above the diagonal in a Jordan block?

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Jordan blocks are used to represent linear operators on spaces where a full set of eigenvectors might not exist. The blocks feature eigenvalues on the diagonal and 1s on the super-diagonal.

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In a Jordan block, what value is found in every entry of the super-diagonal?

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