Condition of distinct eigenvectors?

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I am looking at this wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_decomposition#Eigendecomposition

Eigendecomposition
Also called spectral decomposition
Applicable to: square matrix A with distinct eigenvectors (not necessarily distinct eigenvalues).

What is the conditions of having distinct eigenvectors? Is it possible to have different eigenvectors while having the same eigenvalues?

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It depends on the conditions you have available to you, that you have information about.

(Sufficent)You can compute the characteristic polynomial $Det ( A- \lambda I) $ and check there are different eigenvalues, i.e., no n-ple roots for $n \times n$ matrix.

You can also just compute the eigenspaces if you have a repeated root; the eigenspaces associated to different eigenvalues are linearly independent, i.e., the basis vectors are independent of each other.