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# Authored by Weisheng Jiang
# Book 4  |  From Basic Arithmetic to Machine Learning
# Published and copyrighted by Tsinghua University Press
# Beijing, China, 2022
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# Bk4_Ch21_01.py

import numpy as np

def is_pos_def(A):
    if np.array_equal(A, A.T):
        try:
            np.linalg.cholesky(A)
            return True
        except np.linalg.LinAlgError:
            return False
    else:
        return False

A = np.array([[1,0],
              [0,0]])

print(is_pos_def(A))