How does the Gram-Schmidt process work?

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Hi, I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview or point me towards a good website describing the gram-schmidt process, its not covered in my text and i need to learn it.

Thanks.

 

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http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~quesada/Courses/LinAlg/ClassNotes/Chapter6_Orthogonality_LS/6.4.pdf
http://www.math.hmc.edu/calculus/tutorials/gramschmidt/