Re: adding matrices
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- Subject: [mg65792] Re: adding matrices
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:28:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 4/16/06 at 3:49 AM, ac7220 at wayne.edu (francis hu7xley) wrote:
>am fairly new to mathematica. simply want to add two 3x3 matrices
>together(actually, subtract). if they are called m and p, if i type
>m-p, mathematica treats the second matrix p as a scalar and
>subtracts that entire 3x3 matrix p from each entry of m. the help
>contents do not seem to address this issue!!! there must be a simple
>way of doing this??
Hmm... With version 5.2 running on Mac OS 10.4.6 I don't get the result you describe. Instead doing
In[6]:=
m = Table[Random[], {3}, {3}]
Out[6]=
{{0.248054090808991, 0.08175882048928461,
0.09171130051093868}, {0.9320093048442182,
0.811932501327654, 0.4762175089976257},
{0.9632985629564331, 0.2848638564009711,
0.37751589172137134}}
In[7]:=
p = Table[Random[Integer, {1, 10}], {3}, {3}]
Out[7]=
{{5, 1, 1}, {3, 6, 4}, {7, 4, 1}}
In[8]:=
p - m
Out[8]=
{{4.751945909191009, 0.9182411795107154,
0.9082886994890613}, {2.067990695155782,
5.188067498672346, 3.5237824910023745},
{6.0367014370435665, 3.715136143599029,
0.6224841082786287}
Seems to return the result you want.
Perhaps if you provided a sample of the code you are using?
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