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independent?(*vs) public

Returns true iff all of vectors are linearly independent.

Vector.independent?(Vector[1,0], Vector[0,1])
  => true

Vector.independent?(Vector[1,2], Vector[2,4])
  => false

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# File lib/matrix.rb, line 1824
  def Vector.independent?(*vs)
    vs.each do |v|
      raise TypeError, "expected Vector, got #{v.class}" unless v.is_a?(Vector)
      Vector.Raise ErrDimensionMismatch unless v.size == vs.first.size
    end
    return false if vs.count > vs.first.size
    Matrix[*vs].rank.eql?(vs.count)
  end

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