Sage Reference Manual: Matrices and Spaces of Matrices - Mirrors

Sage Reference Manual: Matrices and Spaces of Matrices, Release 6.1.1
sage: A = matrix(QQ,2,3, [1,2,3,2,4,6]); v = vector([-1/2,-1])
sage: x = A \ v; x
(-1/2, 0, 0)
sage: A*x == v
True
Same example but over Z:
sage: A = matrix(ZZ,2,3, [1,2,3,2,4,6]); v = vector([-1,-2])
sage: A \ v
(-1, 0, 0)
An example in which there is no solution:
sage: A = matrix(QQ,2,3, [1,2,3,2,4,6]); v = vector([1,1])
sage: A \ v
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: matrix equation has no solutions
A ValueError is raised if the input is invalid:
sage: A = matrix(QQ,4,2, [0, -1, 1, 0, -2, 2, 1, 0])
sage: B = matrix(QQ,2,2, [1, 0, 1, -1])
sage: X = A.solve_right(B)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: number of rows of self must equal number of rows of B
We solve with A singular:
sage: A = matrix(QQ,2,3, [1,2,3,2,4,6]); B = matrix(QQ,2,2, [6, -6, 12, -12])
sage: X = A.solve_right(B); X
[ 6 -6]
[ 0 0]
[ 0 0]
sage: A*X == B
True
We illustrate left associativity, etc., of the backslash operator.
sage: A = matrix(QQ, 2, [1,2,3,4])
sage: A \ A
[1 0]
[0 1]
sage: A \ A \ A
[1 2]
[3 4]
sage: A.parent()(1) \ A
[1 2]
[3 4]
sage: A \ (A \ A)
[ -2 1]
[ 3/2 -1/2]
sage: X = A \ (A - 2); X
[ 5 -2]
[-3 2]
sage: A * X
[-1 2]
[ 3 2]
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