Re: Block diagonal matrices
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- Subject: [mg90325] Re: Block diagonal matrices
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:53:36 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, a block diagonal matrix is usually square as the blocks are square. This can be done by e.g. Jordan normal form. A non-square block diagonal matrix would have non-square blocks, but I never encoutered work in this direction. Daniel yo at kth.se wrote: > Dear Sir, > I hope you accept my apology for bothering you. I really need to convert a > matrix (12x19) to its Block diagonal from. As far as I searched in > Mathematica software help center, I could not find the appropriate > function. I would really appreciate if you could show me how to do this be > Mathematica. > Best regards, > Youness > > -- Daniel Huber Metrohm Ltd. Oberdorfstr. 68 CH-9100 Herisau Tel. +41 71 353 8585, Fax +41 71 353 8907 E-Mail:<mailto:dh at metrohm.com> Internet:<http://www.metrohm.com>