• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.31-41
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• 1999

We investigate some techniques of iterative refinement of solutions of a nonsingular system Ax = b with A partitioned into blocks using only single precision arithmetic. We prove that iterative refinement improves a blockwise measure of backward stability. Some applications of the results for the least squares problem (LS) will be also considered.