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Which decomposition splits a matrix into an orthogonal matrix $Q$ and an upper triangular matrix $R$?

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QR decomposition

QR decomposition is a fundamental tool for solving the linear least squares problem and is the basis for the QR algorithm used to find eigenvalues.

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