Seems like GE on a 2x2 matrix should be pretty darn fast.... especially if you use scalar * vector type operations.

Here are three examples that we will consider. In each case, we have pre-computed the eigenvalues and eigenvectors (check them yourself). \[ A = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & 2 ...

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