Re: adding matrices
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- Subject: [mg65812] Re: [mg65755] adding matrices
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:29:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I suspect that p was not defined as you thought because the method works. mat1 = Array[a, {3, 3}] mat2 = Array[b, {3, 3}] mat1 - mat2 gives your expected result. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: francis hu7xley [mailto:ac7220 at wayne.edu] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net [This post has been delayed due to email problems - moderator] 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?? thanks in advance for any help