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Re: Zero entries in one column of a matrix


From: Miquel Cabanas
Subject: Re: Zero entries in one column of a matrix
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:54:33 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

hello,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:40:05AM -0800, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
> But how does the elimination of the zero entries (in the second
> column of M) work in M (statement, 1) producing col vector of
> length 100-25=75, and M (same statement, 2) producing col vector
> of length 75 also?

because *statement* (i.e. "M(:,2) ~= 0" in your example) produces
a boolean matrix, which is regarded as a matrix of indexes and
handled by octave differently than standard matrices or vectors.

octave:1> M = [ 1 1; 2 0; 3 1; 4 1; 5 0; 6 1; 7 1; 8 1; 9 0] 
octave:2> M_boolean = M(:,2) ~= 0;
octave:3> whos

*** local user variables:

prot  type                       rows   cols  name
====  ====                       ====   ====  ====
 rwd  matrix                        9      2  M
 rwd  bool matrix                   9      1  M_boolean

note though that as soon as you convert your bool-matrix into a
plain-matrix this feature is gone,

octave:4> M_plain = M_boolean .+ 0;
octave:5> whos

*** local user variables:

prot  type                       rows   cols  name
====  ====                       ====   ====  ====
 rwd  matrix                        9      2  M
 rwd  bool matrix                   9      1  M_boolean
 rwd  matrix                        9      1  M_plain

octave:6> M( M_plain , 1);
error: invalid row index = 0


Miquel



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