If anyone has actually been following my blog, which I doubt at this point, they may have noticed that the attempt at weekly posts lasted all of two weeks.

It occurred to me that I didn't really explain very well how to check the dependencies of the individual parts of the computation in my previous post so in addition to the code, I went and made a diagram or two to illustrate it a bit better.

EDITED: 2025-02-12, moved related code from gist to full repo + fixed some notation errors

Over the last couple days I've been working out how to solve overdetermined systems of relatively short linear equations as part of a program that needs to fit conics, specifically ellipses.

I was finally convinced to make a blog