Re: Row or column?
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- Subject: [mg112737] Re: Row or column?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:11:39 -0400 (EDT)
I don't see where the problem is -- provided you use a proper data
structure for a matrix and don't confuse that with the display you get
from MatrixForm. For example, you get exactly the expected mathematical
results from:
a = {{2,3}};
a.Transpose[a]
Transpose[a].a
Note:
{Dimsnsions[a], Dimensions@Transpose[a]}
{ {1,2}, {2,1} }
On 9/28/2010 6:02 AM, Kevin J. McCann wrote:
> This lack of distinction between rows and columns can be a problem.
> Consider:
>
> a.Transpose[a] and Transpose[a].a
>
> Kevin
>
> On 9/27/2010 5:48 AM, Sjoerd C. de Vries wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> Mathematica considers the first level of a list as rows, the second,
>> nested, levels are the columns etc. So, for display purposes {{a, b}}
>> would show as a row, but if you want to use it for matrix/vector
>> multiplication you only need {a,b}, as Mathematica does not
>> differentiate between row or column vectors.
>>
>> Cheers -- Sjoerd
>>
>> On Sep 26, 8:44 am, Sam Takoy<sam.ta... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How come
>>>
>>> {a, b} // MatrixForm
>>> {{a}, { b}} // MatrixForm
>>>
>>> produce identical outputs: columns?
>>>
>>> I would think that the first "matrix" is 1x2 and the second is 2x1.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, how do I produce a 1x2 matrix?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Sam
>>
>>
>
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