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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>matrices</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="matrices"> Scilab object, matrices in Scilab</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P>
    Matrices are basic objects defined in Scilab.
    They can be defined as follows:</P>
    <VERBATIM>
<![CDATA[
E=[e11,e12,...,e1n;
   e21,e22,...,e2n;
        ....
   em1,em2,...,emn];
   ]]>
    </VERBATIM>
    <P>
    Entries <VERB>eij</VERB> can be real or complex numbers, polynomials,
    rationals, strings, booleans.</P>
    <P>
    Vectors are seen as matrices with one row or one column.</P>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <EXAMPLE>
<![CDATA[
E=[1,2;3,4]
E=[%T,%F;1==1,1~=1]
s=poly(0,'s');E=[s,s^2;1,1+s]
E=[1/s,0;s,1/(s+1)]
E=['A11','A12';'A21','A22']
 ]]>
  </EXAMPLE>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>poly</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>string</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>boolean</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>rational</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>empty</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>hypermatrices</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
