Linear combination

expression constructed from a set of terms by the addition of terms in the set to each other any number of times

In math, a linear combination is the sum of multiplying each value in a set by a constant.

Example

For a set $\{x,y\}$ , the linear combination can be anything in the pattern $a*x+b*y$ .

In this example, $a$ and $b$ are the constants.

Related pages

Linear algebra

References

Weisstein, Eric W. "Linear Combination". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

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