Re: Working with arrays
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
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Just use plain old "." (period).
CenterDot has no built-in meaning, as DocumentationCenter page ref/CenterDot explains. You could give it the meaning of Dot by using the Notation package, but that would merely provide a bit of notational proximity to the usual mathematical notation at the expense of the annoyance and traps of the package.
On Jun 16, 2013, at 5:19 AM, amannucci <Anthony.J.Mannucci at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> I thought I understood variables. This sequence completely mystifies me:
> Clear[lA, xtest]
> lA = {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {7, 8, 9}};
> xtest = {4, 5, 6};
> lA\[CenterDot]xtest (* First case *)
> {{a, b}, {c, d}} . {x, y} (* Second case *)
>
> The output is:
>
> {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {7, 8, 9}}\[CenterDot]{4, 5, 6}
>
> {a x + b y, c x + d y}
>
> How do I force matrix multiplication to actually occur, as in the second answer? Why does Mathematica do the matrix multiply in the second case but not the first?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -Tony
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- Working with arrays
- From: amannucci <Anthony.J.Mannucci@jpl.nasa.gov>
- Working with arrays