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For questions about linear algebra, a mathematical field studying vector spaces and matrices.

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Why do we call it a "positive definite matrix" rather than a "positively definite matrix"?

Yes, it seems that there are linguistic reasons1 why positive definite works better than positively definite. 1BTW, for that reason, I think that it was a mistake to migrate this question from the E …
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