Re: Don't want to calculate scalar product
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- Subject: [mg19743] Re: Don't want to calculate scalar product
- From: Martin Kraus <Martin.Kraus at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:52:59 -0400
- Organization: Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Stuttgart
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Toshiyuki (Toshi) Meshii wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I understand that one of the unique point of Mathematica is that you don't
> have to be conscious about whether a vector is a "row" or a "column" vector.
Actually I always think of Mathematica lists as row vectors.
(Though some functions treat them as if they were column vectors. :)
> However, I think there is a case in which you have to specify whether you
> want Mathematica to recognize a vector as a row vector or a column vector.
> Let me explain my case.
>
> a={1,2,3}; b={4,5,6}
>
> I want to define "a" as a column vector (3x1 matrix) and "b" as a row vector
> (1x3 matrix).
Well, just do it:
a={{1},{2},{3}}; b={{4,5,6}}; a.b
returns
{{4, 5, 6}, {8, 10, 12}, {12, 15, 18}}
> I expect the product
> a.b
> as a 3x3 matrix, but the answer Mathematica gives is a scalar product "32".
product.
The inner product is what "." calculates. For the outer product
use Outer[Times, a, b] with the vectors a and b:
a = {1, 2, 3}; b = {4, 5, 6}; Outer[Times, a, b]
{{4, 5, 6}, {8, 10, 12}, {12, 15, 18}}
> Please give me an advice to get the 3x3 matrix as a product.
>
> -Toshi
Hope that helps
Martin Kraus