Re: Silly question on Matrices
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- Subject: [mg111547] Re: Silly question on Matrices
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 07:44:26 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <i3bd6b$pi8$1@smc.vnet.net>
Am Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:51:07 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb "Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes" <emammendes at gmail.com>:
> Hello there
>
> I am new to Mathematica. In one of my attempts to understand how it
> works, I tried the following example
>
> A={{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}} //MatrixForm
>
> The result seems to be a matrix 3x3 but when I try A[[1][1]], the
> whole first line shows up instead of just one element. If I don't
> use MatrixForm, it works fine. How can I see a matrix in nice format
> without wrecking everything?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed
>
>
Do not assign MatrixForm[{{<matrix>}}] to a but {{<matrix>}} and throw
MatrixForm onto A:
In[11]:= (A={{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}})//MatrixForm
Out[11]//MatrixForm=
(
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
)
In[12]:= A[[1,1]] (* A[[1][1]] is wrong *)
Out[12]= 1
hth,
Peter