Example
A linear system of the form with initial estimate is given by
We use the equation, described above, to estimate . First, we rewrite the equation in a more convenient form, where and . Note that where and are the strictly lower and upper parts of . From the known values
we determine as
Further, C is found as
With T and C calculated, we estimate as :
The next iteration yields
This process is repeated until convergence (i.e., until is small). The solution after 25 iterations is
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