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Re: Matrix Inverse Issue

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  • Subject: [mg80628] Re: [mg80556] Matrix Inverse Issue
  • From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:25:35 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200708260700.DAA03587@smc.vnet.net>

On Aug 26, 2007, at 3:00 AM, Brian Gladman wrote:

> I am having a problem with the matrix inverse for the following  
> matrix in
> Mathematica 6:
>
> A = Table[If[j == i, 1 - i/10, If[j == i + 1, i/10, 0]], {i, 9},  
> {j, 9}]
>
> {{9/10, 1/10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 4/5, 1/5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 7/10, 3/10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 3/5, 2/5, 0, 0, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 1/2, 1/2, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2/5, 3/5, 0,
>   0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3/10, 7/10, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1/5, 4/
>   5}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1/10}}
>
> A Inverse[A]
>
> {{1, -1/72, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, -1/14, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0,
>    0, 1, -3/14, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 1, -8/15, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0,
>   0, 0, 0, 1, -5/4, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -3, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0,
>   0, 0, 0, 1, -49/6, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -32}, {0, 0, 0, 0,
>   0, 0, 0, 0, 1}}
>
> I expected the identity matrix here but I get extra terms.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Use Dot for matrix multiplication eg: A.Inverse[A]

Regards,

Ssezi


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