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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!tfd!bret
- From: bret@tfd.COM (Bret Weinraub)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: 4x4 matrix
- Keywords: matrix detrminant invers
- Message-ID: <2054@tfd.tfd.com>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 22:31:09 GMT
- Organization: Twenty-First Designs, Wash, DC
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- Help!
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- I have the following problem. Any input on how to solve it is greatly
- appreciated. Please email me.
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- job: Invert the following matrix
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- 3 4 1 8
- 1 1 2 0
- [A] = 2 7 3 7
- 1 0 6 5
- formula 1) first find the determinant of A (det A)
- 2) to get the inverse, the formula is (1/det A) * [A]
- The quotation marks should be brackets.
- For a 3 by 3 matrix
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- a b c the formula for the determinant is:
- d e f
- g h i det A = a(ei-fh) + b(fg-di) + c(dh-eg)
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- the formula for the inverse is:
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- ei-fh/det A ch-bi/det A bf-ce/det A
- fg-di/det A ai-cg/det A cd-af/det A
- dh-eg/det A bg-ah/det A ae-bd/det A
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- I don't know how to apply this to a 4 by 4 matrix. But I am willing to learn.
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