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24-Ruby IV
September 27, 2016
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Why??? Sum vector and matrix in prime

  • September 27, 2016
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I have do so:

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Best answer by LucMeekes

Because the summation operator without indices is designed to work only with vectors and ranges, not with matrices.

It's been that way in Mathcad also:

It also doesn't accept pure numbers:

But I would fully agree with you that there is no compelling reason to limit the summation operator in this way. Especially because the mean function accepts all:

Luc

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IVAnswer
23-Emerald IV
September 27, 2016

Because the summation operator without indices is designed to work only with vectors and ranges, not with matrices.

It's been that way in Mathcad also:

It also doesn't accept pure numbers:

But I would fully agree with you that there is no compelling reason to limit the summation operator in this way. Especially because the mean function accepts all:

Luc

24-Ruby IV
September 27, 2016

LucMeekes написал(а):

But I would fully agree with you that there is no compelling reason to limit the summation operator in this way. Especially because the mean function accepts all:

Luc

One more bad limitation (Net v jizni schact'ia!)

Matrix and vector in Solver!

23-Emerald V
September 27, 2016

LucMeekes wrote:

Because the summation operator without indices is designed to work only with vectors and ranges, not with matrices.

It's been that way in Mathcad also:

It also doesn't accept pure numbers:

But I would fully agree with you that there is no compelling reason to limit the summation operator in this way. Especially because the mean function accepts all:

Luc

I'm surprised at you, Valery. Seems to work for me.

Stuart

24-Ruby IV
September 27, 2016

Sum.bmp

25-Diamond I
September 27, 2016

Valery, it looks to me that your trick won't work with scalars and nested matrices - right?

Werner