Timeline for Why don't * and ^ work as I expected on matrices? [closed]
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 22:35 | history | closed |
corey979 rhermans Henrik Schumacher m_goldberg halirutan |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 13:45 | comment | added | Henrik Schumacher | Simple answer: Because you have the wrong expectations. The syntax is defined in the language. And its creator had a taste different from the creator of, say, MATLAB. | |
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| Jul 13, 2015 at 4:03 | history | edited | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2013 at 2:10 | comment | added | Leo Fang | +1 I had the same question long time ago, but I decided to move on and take it as given... | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 17:43 | answer | added | Szabolcs | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 17:09 | comment | added | murray |
@Harold, note that . is (almost) the usual mathematical center-dot notation for matrix product. And that a superscript such as ^2 would be ambiguous when applied to matrices; only context or convention would dictate that it means matrix power, which is made explicit by MatrixPower.
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| Jan 24, 2012 at 17:03 | history | edited | J. M.'s missing motivation♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2012 at 14:50 | vote | accept | Harold | ||
| Jan 24, 2012 at 14:47 | history | edited | Harold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changing question name to emphasize that it's merely
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| Jan 24, 2012 at 0:52 | answer | added | celtschk | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 0:52 | answer | added | rm -rf♦ | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 0:38 | history | asked | Harold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |