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GMRES is known to determine a least squares solution of $ A x = b $ where $ A \in R^{n \times n} $ without breakdown for arbitrary $ b \in R^n $, and initial iterate $ x_0 \in R^n $ if and only if $ A $ is range-symmetric, i.e. $ R(A^T) =…
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