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pivot column

A column of row echelon form that contains a leading entry.

Once a matrix is in row echelon form, a column is a pivot column if it contains a leading entry of some row, and a free column otherwise. If a system in $n$ variables reduces to $r$ pivot columns, $r$ variables are basic and the remaining $n-r$ are free.

See also

pivot basic variable free variable

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