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In maths, a set of vectors in a vector space is called a basis if every element can be written as a linear combination of the basis vectors. The coefficients are the components or coordinates of the vector. A basis  B for ℝ n  is defined as a set of linearly independent vectors that spans the entire space. The vectors in the basis are frequently the standard unit vectors, represented as e 1 , e 2 , …, e n , where each vector has a single component equal to 1, with all other components set to zero. Any vector w in    ℝ n  can be expressed as a linear combination of these basis vectors. Any basis for ℝ n   must have exactly n elements. The standard basis in ℝ 3  consists of three vectors: In Pyton we can represent these using NumPy array: import numpy as np # Standard basis vectors in R^3 e1 = np.array([1, 0, 0]) e2 = np.array([0, 1, 0]) e3 = np.array([0, 0, 1]) # Display the basis vectors print ( "Standard Basis Vectors in R^3:" ) print ( "...

Two vectors are considered to be linearly dependent if and only if they are collinear, that is to say, if one can be expressed as a scalar multiple of the other. Furthermore, any set containing the zero vector is also deemed to be linearly dependent. Mathematically, this is expressed as: w = α 1 v 1 + α 2 v 2   where α 1  and α 2  are scalars (real numbers in this context). It means that vector  2 6 4 can be expressed as a linear combination of two other vectors: 2 6 4 = 2 × 1 1 0 + 4 × 0 1 1 This demonstrates that the vector 2 6 4 is linearly dependent on the vectors 1 1 0 and 0 1 1 Also linear dependence is called a linear combination or being within the linear span of the vectors. A set of vectors  v = [v₁ v₂ ... vₙ] is said to be linearly independent if no vector vᵢ within the set can be written as a linear combination of the others. Linear Dependence Python Example import numpy as np...