Solution to system of nonlinear equations

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I am trying to comple the character table of a finite group with seven conjugacy classes $c_1, \cdots, c_7$:

Character table

If I use the orthogonality of the column vectors of table I get a system of $21$ nonlinear equations of the form $$ k_{i, j} + r_i r_j + s_i s_j = 0 $$

where $k _{i, j} \in \mathbb{R}$ for $1 \leq i, j \leq 7$ and $i \neq j$. I do not know if it helps but I noticed that I can write evey equation as a $2 \times 2$ matrix with determinant $-k_{i, j}$: $$ \operatorname{det} \begin{pmatrix} r_i & -s_j\\ s_i & r_j \end{pmatrix} = -k_{i, j}. $$

I do not know how to solve this system. Can you help me?

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If you multiply the fifth character with the second, you obtain another irreducible character. The remaining missing character should be easy to determine.