# Classifying Row-Reduced Echelon Matrices

by Wayne Bishop (California State University, Los Angeles) and Stewart Venit (California State University, Los Angeles)

College Mathematics Journal
March, 1986

Subject classification(s): Algebra and Number Theory | Linear Algebra
Applicable Course(s): 3.8 Linear/Matrix Algebra

The author characterizes and counts the number of the many row-reduced echelon forms associated with the set of all $$m \times n$$ matrices.

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