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By using a field extension over √5, you can evaluate this exactly without rounding or resorting to floating point.


I think that's a very sharp observation. I tried it, but in order to exponentiate the vectors (instead of floating point numbers) I end up with the original matrix algorithm (pre-eigenvalues)...




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