Re: inverse matrix (the APL way)

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From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:42

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In article <11658@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
>You must be thinking that f90 will emulate APL in all of its "glory". 
>In APL, the line 
>                   B (leftarrow) 1/A 
>would give you the inverse of A.  

Well, if that's true, then what does the line:
               B (left-arrow) (quad-overstrike-divide) A
do, and what would the line:
               (quad) (left-arrow) 1 / 1 2 4 8
do, since the RHS of the "/" operator is a non-square matrix?

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