Re: Silly question on Matrices
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- Subject: [mg111560] Re: Silly question on Matrices
- From: Simon <simonjtyler at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 07:00:13 -0400 (EDT)
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This is such a common Mathematica gotcha that it should be documented
properly.
The MatrixForm documentation says:
MatrixForm acts as a "wrapper", which affects printing, but
not evaluation.
Which is true provided you know your Mathematica operator ordering.
Maybe the docs need a Possible Issues section??
On Aug 4, 7:51 pm, "Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes" <emammen... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello there
>
> I am new to Mathematica. In one of my attempts to understand how it works,
> I tried the following example
>
> A={{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}} //MatrixForm
>
> The result seems to be a matrix 3x3 but when I try A[[1][1]], the whole
> first line shows up instead of just one element. If I don't use MatrixForm,
> it works fine. How can I see a matrix in nice format without wrecking
> everything?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed