Re: A question of matrix multiply, who can solve it?
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- Subject: [mg25694] Re: A question of matrix multiply, who can solve it?
- From: Brian Higgins <bghiggins at ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 04:35:21 -0400 (EDT)
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Chen Jisheng ,
For matrix multiplication you need to use the Dot function:
Dot[A,B]
or the short-hand version
A.B
Cheers,
Brian
In article <8sjkht$g2h at smc.vnet.net>,
Chen Jisheng <chenjs at iopp.ccnu.edu.cn> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> As a beginning user, I find a mistake of Mathematic 4.0(/3.0 for
student).
>
> That is about the multipy method of matrix.
>
> For example, as I input the two matrices:
>
> A={a[1, 1], a[1, 2], a[1, 3], a[1, 4], a[1, 5]}
> {a[2, 1], a[2, 2], a[2, 3], a[2, 4], a[2, 5]}
> {a[3, 1], a[3, 2], a[3, 3], a[3, 4], a[3, 5]}
> {a[4, 1], a[4, 2], a[4, 3], a[4, 4], a[4, 5]}
> {a[5, 1], a[5, 2], a[5, 3], a[5, 4], a[5, 5]},
> B={{b[1, 1], b[1, 2], b[1, 3], b[1, 4], b[1, 5]},
>
> {b[2, 1], b[2, 2], b[2, 3], b[2, 4], b[2, 5]},
>
> {b[3, 1], b[3, 2], b[3, 3], b[3, 4], b[3, 5]},
>
> {b[4, 1], b[4, 2], b[4, 3], b[4, 4], b[4, 5]},
>
> {b[5, 1], b[5, 2], b[5, 3], b[5, 4], b[5, 5]}},
>
> then calculate the result of A B. The mathematics gives the
following
> result:
>
> A B={{a[1, 1] b[1, 1], a[1, 2] b[1, 2], a[1, 3] b[1, 3],
>
> a[1, 4] b[1, 4], a[1, 5] b[1, 5]},
>
> {a[2, 1] b[2, 1], a[2, 2] b[2, 2], a[2, 3] b[2, 3],
>
> a[2, 4] b[2, 4], a[2, 5] b[2, 5]},
>
> {a[3, 1] b[3, 1], a[3, 2] b[3, 2], a[3, 3] b[3, 3],
>
> a[3, 4] b[3, 4], a[3, 5] b[3, 5]},
>
> {a[4, 1] b[4, 1], a[4, 2] b[4, 2], a[4, 3] b[4, 3],
>
> a[4, 4] b[4, 4], a[4, 5] b[4, 5]},
>
> {a[5, 1] b[5, 1], a[5, 2] b[5, 2], a[5, 3] b[5, 3],
>
> a[5, 4] b[5, 4], a[5, 5] b[5, 5]}}.
>
> As all knows, this is not correct. I think it is terrible.
>
> Do you think so? How can improve it?
>
> Looking forward to receiving the reply.
>
> J.-S CHen,
> Institute of Particle Physics,
> Hua-Zhong Normal University,
> Wuhan 430079,China
>
>
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