The Frobenius norm, sometimes also called the Euclidean norm (a term unfortunately also used for the vector -norm),
is matrix norm of an matrix defined as the square root
of the sum of the absolute squares of its elements,
(Golub and van Loan 1996, p. 55).
The Frobenius norm can also be considered as a vector
norm.
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