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Orthogonal basis of ${\bf Sym}_n(\mathbb R)$, made of orthogonal matrices

My question is motivated by this one, but within real matrices instead of complex ones. ${\bf Sym}_n(\mathbb R)$ is a vector space of dimension $N=\frac{n(n+1)}2$. Equipped with the scalar product $\...