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5 May 2024 01:53:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Matrix question  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 22 Dec 2000 08:39:55
Message: <slrn946mdd.4h2.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On 22 Dec 2000 04:50:45 -0500, Warp wrote:
>Rune <run### [at] inamecom> wrote:
>:> Premultiply both sides by the inverse of [A]
>
>: You've lost me. Too tricky for me.
>
>  Just calculate the inverse matrix of A and then multiply A*C (matrix
>multiplication, not item-by-item multiplication) and you'll get B.
>
>  Calculating the inverse of a matrix is not a simple operation, though.

I think there's a can't-miss formula for the inverse of a 3x3 matrix, but
I don't remember it off the top of my head.  And of course it doesn't work
for noninvertable matrices.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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