1. A method for facilitating equalization in a receiver chain in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: in the case that a received signal contains multiple data streams, generating an equalizer matrix for a tone of the received signal, wherein the equalizer matrix is a function of an inverse matrix computed based at least in part upon a partial update of a subset of elements of a fast square root matrix, modifying the fast square root matrix so as to reduce a dynamic range requirement, and equalizing the tone as a function of the equalizer matrix; and performing maximum ratio combining equalization in the case that the received signal contains a single data stream.