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Row Reduction & Rank · Challenge problem

Let AA be the symmetric Pascal matrix

A=(1111123413610141020).A = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 1 & 3 & 6 & 10 \\ 1 & 4 & 10 & 20 \end{pmatrix}.

Write A=LUA = LU by elimination without row exchanges, with 11s on the diagonal of LL. What is ℓ43\ell_{43}?