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Matrix/Elementary row operations/Elementary matrix from left/Fact

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Let be a field and a -matrix with entries in .

Then the multiplication by elementary matrices from the left with has the following effects.
  1. exchange of the -th and the -th row of .
  2. multiplication of the -th row of by .
  3. addition of -times the -th row of to the -th row ().