
What do Mount St. Helens and the rank of a matrix have in common? The answer is the MATLAB function peaks. Let me explain. Please bear with me -- it's a long story.
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Mount St. HelensRank Revealing FactorizationsC*inv(W)*RpeaksRankReformulateCheckMount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in the Cascade Range near Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. She had a dramatic eruption in May 1980. Four years after the eruption, I moved to Beaverton, Oregon to join a spinoff from Intel
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