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Re: A Method to Simplify Matrix Entry?

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  • Subject: [mg45096] Re: A Method to Simplify Matrix Entry?
  • From: "Curt Fischer" <crf3 at po.cwru.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:54:17 -0500 (EST)
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"Harold Noffke" <Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil> wrote in message
news:brmqpb$ocq$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> The basic Mathematica system requires a list format for making matrix
> entries which is more cumbersome and harder to understand than
> some other system's notation.  Has anyone written a Mathematica Method to
> simplify matrix entry?

Have you tried using the "Basic Input Palette"?  Look under the "file" menu,
under the "palettes" subheading.  If you choose "Basic Input Palette", a bar
should come up that includes a 2x2 matrix-looking button.  Click on it and
you can enter matrices directly as a grid of any desired size.

You can use CTRL-Enter and CRTL-comma to add rows and columns.  You can do
this directly from an empty line without using the palette, if you wish.

Happy matrix entering.

-- 
Curt Fischer


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