Hermite Normal Form and Reduced Row Echelon form.

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After reading about the Hermite Normal form and row echelon form, I find it that both these forms are similar in every respect. My question is, are they similar? Or is Hermite Normal form a special case of Echelon form. If they are similar we can use the same algorithm for finding the row echelon form and Hermite normal form.

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Wikipedia explains the differences and similarities between the two. Finding Hermite normal form for an integer matrix, you're not allowed to divide, so you won't necessarily get a leading 1 in each nonzero row, for instance.