Re: adding matrices
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- Subject: [mg65784] Re: [mg65755] adding matrices
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:28:42 -0400 (EDT)
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Works fine on my system
$Version
5.2 for Mac OS X (June 20, 2005)
m=Array[a,{3,3}];
p=Array[b,{3,3}];
m-p
{{a[1, 1] - b[1, 1], a[1, 2] - b[1, 2], a[1, 3] - b[1, 3]},
{a[2, 1] - b[2, 1], a[2, 2] - b[2, 2], a[2, 3] - b[2, 3]},
{a[3, 1] - b[3, 1], a[3, 2] - b[3, 2], a[3, 3] - b[3, 3]}}
Bob Hanlon
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> From: francis hu7xley <ac7220 at wayne.edu>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg65784] [mg65755] adding matrices
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> [This post has been delayed due to email problems - moderator]
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> 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??
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> thanks in advance for any help
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