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  1. January 29th 2008, 09:08 PM #1
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    Question linearly independent

    I don't understand at all why the empty set is linearly independent and linearly dependent sets must be nonempty??
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  2. January 30th 2008, 05:02 AM #2
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    Write out the formal definitions of Linearly Dependent and Linearly Independent. Then let's talk about them.
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