The dimension of the domain of an injective linear transformation is at most the dimension of the codomain.

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For an injective linear map $T:V\to W$ between finite-dimensional spaces, $\dim V\le\dim W$. Rank–nullity gives $\operatorname{rank}T=\dim V$, while the range is a subspace of $W$. This prevents an injective linear map from a larger finite coordinate space into a smaller one.

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