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Re: Simply but handy question

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  • Subject: [mg124857] Re: Simply but handy question
  • From: Alexei Boulbitch <Alexei.Boulbitch at iee.lu>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 05:42:53 -0500 (EST)
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Dear group members,



I am new to mathematica (well, I'm not actually but I haven't used it

in 5 years +).



Is there an easy way to return a matrix X of 1's and 0's to test

whether the entries in Y

are different from zero.



i.e.,



if Y = {{a,b},{0,c}}



Then X would return



X = {{1,1},{0,1}}



This would be handy for very large or complicated matrices where one

would like to know if specific entries are zero?



Many thanks,

Paul



Hi, Paul,

Try this:



matrix1 = {{a, b}, {0, c}};

matrix2 = {{a, b, 0}, {c, 0, 15}, {0, 2, d}};



g[a_] := If[a =!= 0, 1, 0];

Map[g, matrix1, {2}] // MatrixForm

Map[g, matrix2, {2}] // MatrixForm



Have fun, Alexei

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