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Old Nov4-09, 06:13 AM       Last edited by brandy; Nov4-09 at 06:20 AM..            #1
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rebelious matrix commutivity

hey i was just thinking how matrices aren't supposed to be commutative?
well i was just thinking, what if the matricees were equal? and i was like ha! im so cool! take that mr logic.
so yea, so far i have a couple rebelious matricees
a*b where a=1 by 1 and b= 1 by 1
a*b where na=b
a*b where a^n=b
a*b where a= identity
a*b where na=b and a = identity
a*b where a = null
a*b where a= mutliple of identity and b= multiple of mirrored identity

so, my questiono is this, can you help me be a good little poindexter and come up with a couple others?
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Old Nov4-09, 08:31 AM                  #2
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Re: rebelious matrix commutivity

Consider what happens if B = A + xI (for some real number x, I being the identity matrix) and if A and B are diagonal matrices.
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Old Nov4-09, 05:48 PM                  #3
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Re: rebelious matrix commutivity

Both A and B symmetric.
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