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matrix of coefficients?

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  • Subject: matrix of coefficients?
  • From: Lou Talman <me at talmanl.mscd.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 09:27:20 -0600

> If 

> varsN = a list of N variables, 

> and if
> exprsN = a list of of N expressions, each one linear in the variables of
> varsN,

> Is there some operator (that I haven't found yet), or some clever way to
> use a nonobvious operator, to get the matrix of coefficients? 


> I'm doing it, but it is not a pretty sight.  

> I just have a feeling there must be some neat way to do this very >
> commonly
> needed operation.
> Thanks-  Martin McClain, Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit

Try:

Outer[Coefficient, exprsN, varsN]

           --Lou Talman
             Department of Mathematical Sciences
             Metropolitan State College of Denver

             ME at TALMANL.MSCD.EDU






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