Simultaneous Equations: A Note on Morris's Recently Published Method of Solution by Iteration

IN the May issue of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING Captain J. Morris describes a method for the solution of linear algebraic equations by iteration. The main objects of the present note are to show how the statement of the method and the proof of its convergence may be greatly condensed by the use of matrices, and to indicate an alternative computational scheme which involves far less recording of numbers, and therefore less risk of error, than that proposed by Morris.