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5.47.5  Jordan block: JordanBlock

JordanBlock takes as argument an expression a and an integer n.
JordanBlock returns a square matrix of size n with a on the principal diagonal, 1 above this diagonal and 0 elsewhere.
Input:

JordanBlock(7,3)

Output:

[[7,1,0],[0,7,1],[0,0,7]]

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