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where matrix is a numeric matrix or literal.
The ECHELON function uses elementary row operations to reduce a matrix to row-echelon normal form as in the following example (Graybill 1969, p. 286):
a={3 6 9, 1 2 5, 2 4 10}; e=echelon(a);The resulting matrix is
E 3 rows 3 cols (numeric) 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0If the argument is a square matrix, then the row-echelon normal form can be obtained from the Hermite normal form by rearranging rows that are all zeros.
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