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Re: Simply but handy question

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  • Subject: [mg124838] Re: Simply but handy question
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 05:36:15 -0500 (EST)
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The question seems unclear: the purported result you show would depend 
on whether a, b, c were or were not 0.

On 2/8/12 5:29 AM, jediwhelan wrote:
> 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
>

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