Re: mathematica newbie question
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- Subject: [mg66896] Re: mathematica newbie question
- From: "ben" <benjamin.friedrich at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:25:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Jeremy, matrix multiplication can be component-wise (A^2,A*B,...), OR be a matrix multiplication in the genuine sense (A.B, MatrixPower[A,2], ...). Bye Ben > Hi, > > Just trying to get to grips with Mathematica and matrices. Why is it when I > enter :- > {0, 0, 0}, {1, -1, -1}, {-1, 1, 1}}^2 > > then Mathematica returns :- > > {{0, 0, 0}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}} > > and not {{0,0,0},{0,0,0},{0,0,0}} (the actual square of the matrix) as I'd > have expected? > > Is it treating what I entered as separate vectors or something, and not an > actual matrix? > > Thanks