Re: Help: Column/Row Vector
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- Subject: [mg4295] Re: Help: Column/Row Vector
- From: rubin at msu.edu (Paul A. Rubin)
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 03:56:15 -0400
- Organization: Michigan State University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <4q5k2d$bsb at dragonfly.wolfram.com>,
khinast at nld.chee.uh.edu wrote:
->Hi,
->
->I have two vectors x=(x1,x2) and y = (y1,y1). How can I persuade
Mathematica
->that e.g. x is a column vector and y is a row vector, which is kind of
->important for their multiplication .
->I've studied the help page for hours, with no result. So could
->someone please help me. My email address is:
I'm not sure just how you're planning to multiply x and y; the inner
product (Inner[], Dot[]) and outer product (Outer[]) operations work quite
well with two column vectors. In any event, if you need to distinguish the
two, try this:
In[]:= x := {x1, x2};
y := {{y1}, {y2}};
In[]:= Dimensions[ x ]
Out[]= {2}
In[]:= Dimensions[ y ]
Out[]= {2, 1}
Or maybe you want
In[]:= x := {{x1, x2}};
Dimensions[ x ]
Out[]= {1, 2}
Paul
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