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    High School Question on basic linear algebra (new to the subject)

    First off thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge :) I can see with your answer and .Scott's that the history behind these letters is a lot more intruiging than expected, but also a lot more complex. This link will be useful for my research thank you :)
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    High School Question on basic linear algebra (new to the subject)

    I posted my first question to quickly so sorry to have wasted you time on it tho I see you figured it out :) Initially the way it was displayed to me I thought C23 was the only solution to the problem and my brain did not undertstand, but I came to see that it was just 1 answer out of all the...
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    High School Question on basic linear algebra (new to the subject)

    Very interesting ! thx a lot for sharing your knowledge :)
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    High School Question on basic linear algebra (new to the subject)

    It would be nice if someone could find the history of why we use the letters i and j or m and n for the basics when working with Matrices ( A = [aij]mxn ). I tried looking up the information and I was not successful. I understand what they represent in the context of the matter, but not why they...