We consider a rectangular Vandermonde matrix V on Chebyshev nodes. Using co
mbinatorial identities, we give an explicit factorization of the matrix V,
a factorization of the pseudo-inverse of V, and prove that the condition nu
mber kappa (2)(V) does not depend on the dimension of nodes set. We also di
scuss the numerical properties of the proposed formulas. (C) 2001 Elsevier
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