It is shown that the McMillan degree of a strictly proper rational matrix G(s) can be determined by using a sufficiently large Hankel block matrix associated to the Taylor series expansion of G(s) at s = 0 .
McMillan degree, strictly proper rational matrix, Hankel block matrix, Taylor parameter matrices.
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