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You need . Why does production code not compute the inverse?
- ABecause the inverse may fail to exist for some matrices
- BSolving by factorisation is faster and more stable
- CThe inverse of a sparse matrix is also sparse
- DMatrix inversion is not implemented in most linear algebra libraries
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