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AxiomOfChoice
Dec12-11, 10:22 PM
How in the world do you take the square root of a matrix in Mathematica? All the ways I've tried haven't worked... Thanks!
AxiomOfChoice
Dec12-11, 10:25 PM
Figured it out. One simply does MatrixPower[S,1/2], where S is the matrix.