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LISP I Programmer's Manual - Software Preservation Group

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matrixmultiply[x;y] : machine languageThis function has as value a matrix' which ,is the productof the row matrix, x, and the column matrix, y. The two matricesare entered either as direct functional arguments inmatrixmultiply or from being given on the p-list, For ex-ample, if the matrixis to be multiplied by itself, the two arguments, for theAPPLY operator are in the formActually any atomic symbols may be used in place of ROW or COL.It is only necessary that the rest of each sublist be the elementsof the row matrix and the column matrix to the right or-der. See page 126 of the following reference where this functionwas developed,Goldberg, Solomon H., "solution of an Electrical Networkusing a Digital Computer", S.M. Thesis, Course VI, M.I.T.,AU~US t , 1959.reduce [ m] : machine language- The function reduce reduces an ngn matrix to an (n-l)g(n-I) matrix. The function has been used in electrical networkreduction. See the references under reducetonxn below.

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