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MDIV

Purpose:

Solves for a matrix.

Syntax:

MDIV(A, b)

A

-

A non-singular, usually square matrix.

b

-

A matrix

Returns:

A matrix that produces b when multiplied by A.

Example:

W1: {{1, 4, 7},

     {2, 5, 8}, 

     {3, 6, 0}} 

 

W2: {1,

     2, 

     3} 

 

W3: W1 *^ W2

 

{30, 

 36, 

 15} 

 

W4: mdiv(W1, W3)

 

{1, 

 2, 

 3} 

 

W5: inv(W1)

 

{{-1.78,  1.56, -0.11}, 

 { 0.89, -0.78,  0.22}, 

 {-0.11,  0.22, -0.11}} 

 

W6: W5 *^ W3

 

{1, 

 2, 

 3} 

Remarks:

If A, b, and x are matrices, and A *^ x = b, then mdiv(A, b) returns the matrix x.

 

mdiv(A, b) is equivalent to A \^ b.

 

MDIV uses LU decomposition to solve for matrix x and is usually more numerically stable than directly calculating the inverse matrix, i.e.

 

x = inv(A) *^ b

 

If matrix A is not square, the system is considered a least squares problem and is solved by QR decomposition. The resulting matrix is the best solution in the least squares sense.

 

See DADiSP/MatrixXL to significantly optimize MDIV.

See Also:

*^ (Matrix Multiply)

\^ (Matrix Solve)

DADiSP/MatrixXL

INVERSE

LU

MMULT

QR