I want to find the most compact representation of a vector as a linear combination of a set of vectors B. B has more elements (on purpose) that is needs to have to describe the subspace. For example 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 Given 0 2 2 1 I want to obtain: 0 0 0 1 2 and not 0 2 2 1 0