Re: Transpose[A]*A wrong?
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- Subject: [mg41179] Re: Transpose[A]*A wrong?
- From: "Lawrence A. Walker Jr." <lwalker701 at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 06:04:37 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Daniel,
Did you mean to use '.' instead of '*' to perform the matrix multiplication?
use Transpose[A].A
instead of Transpose[A]*A
Lawrence
Daniel Lidström wrote:
> Hi,
>
> why does Mathematica give the wrong result here?
>
> In[1]:= \!\(A\ = \ {{x\_11, x\_12, x\_13}, {x\_21, x\_22, x\_23}, {x\_31,
> x\_32,
> x\_33}}\)
>
> Out[1]= {{x , x , x }, {x , x , x }, {x , x , x }}
> 11 12 13 21 22 23 31 32 33
>
> In[2]:= Transpose[A]*A
>
> 2 2
> 2
> Out[2]= {{x , x x , x x }, {x x , x , x x }, {x x , x x
> , x }}
> 11 12 21 13 31 12 21 22 23 32 13 31 23
> 32 33
>
> Look at the diagonal elements for example.
> Thanks!
>
> /Daniel
>
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