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Re: Combining Matrices

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  • Subject: [mg65066] Re: Combining Matrices
  • From: "J Siehler" <jsiehler at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:59:58 -0500 (EST)
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Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to combine an n x p matrix and an n x q
> matrix to form an n x (p + q) matrix.  I found one way, shown in the
> second last line of the code below, but I have no idea why it works,
> and I'm wondering whether there is a more direct way.

I often define the operation this way:

Beside[a_,b_]:=MapThread[Join, {a,b}]

This works particularly nicely with infix notation; you can write such
things as

A~Beside~B

and I find that very easy to read.


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