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It is also sometimes useful to distinguish matrices that are '''unit lower triangular''' or '''unit upper triangular'''. These matrices are triangular with the additional property that all of the diagonal entries are 1. In [[LU decomposition]], the matrix <var>L</var> is usually unit lower triangular.