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Re: Transpose[A]*A wrong?

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  • Subject: [mg41182] Re: Transpose[A]*A wrong?
  • From: "Bill Bertram" <wkb at ansto.gov.au>
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 06:05:23 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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"Daniel Lidström" <daniel.lidstrom at _DELETE_home.se> wrote in message
news:b950vl$r49$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
>
> why does Mathematica give the wrong result here?
>
> In[1]:= \!\(A\  = \ {{x\_11, x\_12, x\_13}, {x\_21, x\_22, x\_23}, {x\_31,
> x\_32,

Daniel,

 An common error  this one! What you want is not
     Transpose[A]*A
 but
   Transpose[A] . A

ie. the Dot product!

Bill




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