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 -- Function: addmatrices (<f>, <M_1>, ..., <M_n>)

     Using the function <f> as the addition function, return the sum of
     the matrices <M_1>, ..., <M_n>.  The function <f> must accept any
     number of arguments (a Maxima nary function).

     Examples:

          (%i1) m1 : matrix([1,2],[3,4])$
          (%i2) m2 : matrix([7,8],[9,10])$
          (%i3) addmatrices('max,m1,m2);
          (%o3) matrix([7,8],[9,10])
          (%i4) addmatrices('max,m1,m2,5*m1);
          (%o4) matrix([7,10],[15,20])

 -- Function: blockmatrixp (<M>)

     Return true if and only if <M> is a matrix and every entry of <M>
     is a matrix.

 -- Function: columnop (<M>, <i>, <j>, <theta>)

     If <M> is a matrix, return the matrix that results from doing the
     column operation 'C_i <- C_i - <theta> * C_j'.  If <M> doesn't have
     a row <i> or <j>, signal an error.

 -- Function: columnswap (<M>, <i>, <j>)

     If <M> is a matrix, swap columns <i> and <j>.  If <M> doesn't have
     a column <i> or <j>, signal an error.

 -- Function: columnspace (<M>)

     If <M> is a matrix, return 'span (v_1, ..., v_n)', where the set
     '{v_1, ..., v_n}' is a basis for the column space of <M>.  The span
     of the empty set is '{0}'.  Thus, when the column space has only
     one member, return 'span ()'.

 -- Function: cholesky
          cholesky (<M>)
          cholesky (<M>, <field>)

     Return the Cholesky factorization of the matrix selfadjoint (or
     hermitian) matrix <M>.  The second argument defaults to
     'generalring.'  For a description of the possible values for
     <field>, see 'lu_factor'.

 -- Function: ctranspose (<M>)

     Return the complex conjugate transpose of the matrix <M>.  The
     function 'ctranspose' uses 'matrix_element_transpose' to transpose
     each matrix element.

 -- Function: diag_matrix (<d_1>, <d_2>, ..., <d_n>)

     Return a diagonal matrix with diagonal entries <d_1>, <d_2>, ...,
     <d_n>.  When the diagonal entries are matrices, the zero entries of
     the returned matrix are zero matrices of the appropriate size; for
     example:

          (%i1) diag_matrix(diag_matrix(1,2),diag_matrix(3,4));

                                      [ [ 1  0 ]  [ 0  0 ] ]
                                      [ [      ]  [      ] ]
                                      [ [ 0  2 ]  [ 0  0 ] ]
          (%o1)                       [                    ]
                                      [ [ 0  0 ]  [ 3  0 ] ]
                                      [ [      ]  [      ] ]
                                      [ [ 0  0 ]  [ 0  4 ] ]
          (%i2) diag_matrix(p,q);

                                             [ p  0 ]
          (%o2)                              [      ]
                                             [ 0  q ]

 -- Function: dotproduct (<u>, <v>)

     Return the dotproduct of vectors <u> and <v>.  This is the same as
     'conjugate (transpose (<u>)) . <v>'.  The arguments <u> and <v>
     must be column vectors.

 -- Function: eigens_by_jacobi
          eigens_by_jacobi (<A>)
          eigens_by_jacobi (<A>, <field_type>)

     Computes the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of <A> by the method of
     Jacobi rotations.  <A> must be a symmetric matrix (but it need not
     be positive definite nor positive semidefinite).  <field_type>
     indicates the computational field, either 'floatfield' or
     'bigfloatfield'.  If <field_type> is not specified, it defaults to
     'floatfield'.

     The elements of <A> must be numbers or expressions which evaluate
     to numbers via 'float' or 'bfloat' (depending on <field_type>).

     Examples:

          (%i1) S: matrix([1/sqrt(2), 1/sqrt(2)],[-1/sqrt(2), 1/sqrt(2)]);
                               [     1         1    ]
                               [  -------   ------- ]
                               [  sqrt(2)   sqrt(2) ]
          (%o1)                [                    ]
                               [      1        1    ]
                               [ - -------  ------- ]
                               [   sqrt(2)  sqrt(2) ]
          (%i2) L : matrix ([sqrt(3), 0], [0, sqrt(5)]);
                                [ sqrt(3)     0    ]
          (%o2)                 [                  ]
                                [    0     sqrt(5) ]
          (%i3) M : S . L . transpose (S);
                      [ sqrt(5)   sqrt(3)  sqrt(5)   sqrt(3) ]
                      [ ------- + -------  ------- - ------- ]
                      [    2         2        2         2    ]
          (%o3)       [                                      ]
                      [ sqrt(5)   sqrt(3)  sqrt(5)   sqrt(3) ]
                      [ ------- - -------  ------- + ------- ]
                      [    2         2        2         2    ]
          (%i4) eigens_by_jacobi (M);
          The largest percent change was 0.1454972243679
          The largest percent change was 0.0
          number of sweeps: 2
          number of rotations: 1
          (%o4) [[1.732050807568877, 2.23606797749979],
                                  [  0.70710678118655   0.70710678118655 ]
                                  [                                      ]]
                                  [ - 0.70710678118655  0.70710678118655 ]
          (%i5) float ([[sqrt(3), sqrt(5)], S]);
          (%o5) [[1.732050807568877, 2.23606797749979],
                                  [  0.70710678118655   0.70710678118655 ]
                                  [                                      ]]
                                  [ - 0.70710678118655  0.70710678118655 ]
          (%i6) eigens_by_jacobi (M, bigfloatfield);
          The largest percent change was 1.454972243679028b-1
          The largest percent change was 0.0b0
          number of sweeps: 2
          number of rotations: 1
          (%o6) [[1.732050807568877b0, 2.23606797749979b0],
                          [  7.071067811865475b-1   7.071067811865475b-1 ]
                          [                                              ]]
                          [ - 7.071067811865475b-1  7.071067811865475b-1 ]

 -- Function: get_lu_factors (<x>)

     When '<x> = lu_factor (<A>)', then 'get_lu_factors' returns a list
     of the form '[P, L, U]', where <P> is a permutation matrix, <L> is
     lower triangular with ones on the diagonal, and <U> is upper
     triangular, and '<A> = <P> <L> <U>'.

 -- Function: hankel
          hankel (<col>)
          hankel (<col>, <row>)

     Return a Hankel matrix <H>.  The first column of <H> is <col>;
     except for the first entry, the last row of <H> is <row>.  The
     default for <row> is the zero vector with the same length as <col>.

 -- Function: hessian (<f>, <x>)

     Returns the Hessian matrix of <f> with respect to the list of
     variables <x>.  The '(i, j)'-th element of the Hessian matrix is
     'diff(<f>, <x>[i], 1, <x>[j], 1)'.

     Examples:

          (%i1) hessian (x * sin (y), [x, y]);
                               [   0       cos(y)   ]
          (%o1)                [                    ]
                               [ cos(y)  - x sin(y) ]
          (%i2) depends (F, [a, b]);
          (%o2)                       [F(a, b)]
          (%i3) hessian (F, [a, b]);
                                  [   2      2   ]
                                  [  d F    d F  ]
                                  [  ---   ----- ]
                                  [    2   da db ]
                                  [  da          ]
          (%o3)                   [              ]
                                  [   2      2   ]
                                  [  d F    d F  ]
                                  [ -----   ---  ]
                                  [ da db     2  ]
                                  [         db   ]

 -- Function: hilbert_matrix (<n>)

     Return the <n> by <n> Hilbert matrix.  When <n> isn't a positive
     integer, signal an error.

 -- Function: identfor
          identfor (<M>)
          identfor (<M>, <fld>)

     Return an identity matrix that has the same shape as the matrix
     <M>.  The diagonal entries of the identity matrix are the
     multiplicative identity of the field <fld>; the default for <fld>
     is <generalring>.

     The first argument <M> should be a square matrix or a non-matrix.
     When <M> is a matrix, each entry of <M> can be a square matrix -
     thus <M> can be a blocked Maxima matrix.  The matrix can be blocked
     to any (finite) depth.

     See also 'zerofor'

 -- Function: invert_by_lu (<M>, <(rng generalring)>)

     Invert a matrix <M> by using the LU factorization.  The LU
     factorization is done using the ring <rng>.

 -- Function: jacobian (<f>, <x>)

     Returns the Jacobian matrix of the list of functions <f> with
     respect to the list of variables <x>.  The '(i, j)'-th element of
     the Jacobian matrix is 'diff(<f>[i], <x>[j])'.

     Examples:

          (%i1) jacobian ([sin (u - v), sin (u * v)], [u, v]);
                            [ cos(v - u)  - cos(v - u) ]
          (%o1)             [                          ]
                            [ v cos(u v)   u cos(u v)  ]
          (%i2) depends ([F, G], [y, z]);
          (%o2)                  [F(y, z), G(y, z)]
          (%i3) jacobian ([F, G], [y, z]);
                                     [ dF  dF ]
                                     [ --  -- ]
                                     [ dy  dz ]
          (%o3)                      [        ]
                                     [ dG  dG ]
                                     [ --  -- ]
                                     [ dy  dz ]

 -- Function: kronecker_product (<A>, <B>)

     Return the Kronecker product of the matrices <A> and <B>.

 -- Function: listp
          listp (<e>, <p>)
          listp (<e>)

     Given an optional argument <p>, return 'true' if <e> is a Maxima
     list and <p> evaluates to 'true' for every list element.  When
     'listp' is not given the optional argument, return 'true' if <e> is
     a Maxima list.  In all other cases, return 'false'.

 -- Function: locate_matrix_entry (<M>, <r_1>, <c_1>, <r_2>, <c_2>, <f>,
          <rel>)

     The first argument must be a matrix; the arguments <r_1> through
     <c_2> determine a sub-matrix of <M> that consists of rows <r_1>
     through <r_2> and columns <c_1> through <c_2>.

     Find a entry in the sub-matrix <M> that satisfies some property.
     Three cases:

     (1) '<rel> = 'bool' and <f> a predicate:

     Scan the sub-matrix from left to right then top to bottom, and
     return the index of the first entry that satisfies the predicate
     <f>.  If no matrix entry satisfies <f>, return 'false'.

     (2) '<rel> = 'max' and <f> real-valued:

     Scan the sub-matrix looking for an entry that maximizes <f>.
     Return the index of a maximizing entry.

     (3) '<rel> = 'min' and <f> real-valued:

     Scan the sub-matrix looking for an entry that minimizes <f>.
     Return the index of a minimizing entry.

 -- Function: lu_backsub (<M>, <b>)

     When '<M> = lu_factor (<A>, <field>)', then 'lu_backsub (<M>, <b>)'
     solves the linear system '<A> <x> = <b>'.

     The <n> by <m> matrix '<b>', with <n> the number of rows of the
     matrix '<A>', contains one right hand side per column.  If there is
     only one right hand side then '<b>' must be a <n> by 1 matrix.

     Each column of the matrix '<x>=lu_backsub (<M>, <b>)' is the
     solution corresponding to the respective column of '<b>'.

     Examples:

          (%i1) A : matrix ([1 - z, 3], [3, 8 - z]);
                                         [ 1 - z    3   ]
          (%o1)                          [              ]
                                         [   3    8 - z ]
          (%i2) M : lu_factor (A,generalring);
                         [ 1 - z          3         ]
                         [                          ]
          (%o2)         [[   3              9       ], [1, 2], generalring]
                         [ -----  (- z) - ----- + 8 ]
                         [ 1 - z          1 - z     ]
          (%i3) b : matrix([a],[c]);
                                               [ a ]
          (%o3)                                [   ]
                                               [ c ]
          (%i4) x : lu_backsub(M,b);
                                     [               3 a     ]
                                     [       3 (c - -----)   ]
                                     [              1 - z    ]
                                     [ a - ----------------- ]
                                     [               9       ]
                                     [     (- z) - ----- + 8 ]
                                     [             1 - z     ]
                                     [ --------------------- ]
          (%o4)                      [         1 - z         ]
                                     [                       ]
                                     [            3 a        ]
                                     [       c - -----       ]
                                     [           1 - z       ]
                                     [   -----------------   ]
                                     [             9         ]
                                     [   (- z) - ----- + 8   ]
                                     [           1 - z       ]
          (%i5) ratsimp(A . x - b);
                                               [ 0 ]
          (%o5)                                [   ]
                                               [ 0 ]
          (%i6) B : matrix([a,d],[c,f]);
                                             [ a  d ]
          (%o6)                              [      ]
                                             [ c  f ]
          (%i7) x : lu_backsub(M,B);
                         [               3 a                    3 d     ]
                         [       3 (c - -----)          3 (f - -----)   ]
                         [              1 - z                  1 - z    ]
                         [ a - -----------------  d - ----------------- ]
                         [               9                      9       ]
                         [     (- z) - ----- + 8      (- z) - ----- + 8 ]
                         [             1 - z                  1 - z     ]
                         [ ---------------------  --------------------- ]
          (%o7)          [         1 - z                  1 - z         ]
                         [                                              ]
                         [            3 a                    3 d        ]
                         [       c - -----              f - -----       ]
                         [           1 - z                  1 - z       ]
                         [   -----------------      -----------------   ]
                         [             9                      9         ]
                         [   (- z) - ----- + 8      (- z) - ----- + 8   ]
                         [           1 - z                  1 - z       ]
          (%i8) ratsimp(A . x - B);
                                             [ 0  0 ]
          (%o8)                              [      ]
                                             [ 0  0 ]

 -- Function: lu_factor (<M>, <field>)

     Return a list of the form '[<LU>, <perm>, <fld>]', or '[<LU>,
     <perm>, <fld>, <lower-cnd> <upper-cnd>]', where

     (1) The matrix <LU> contains the factorization of <M> in a packed
     form.  Packed form means three things: First, the rows of <LU> are
     permuted according to the list <perm>.  If, for example, <perm> is
     the list '[3,2,1]', the actual first row of the <LU> factorization
     is the third row of the matrix <LU>.  Second, the lower triangular
     factor of m is the lower triangular part of <LU> with the diagonal
     entries replaced by all ones.  Third, the upper triangular factor
     of <M> is the upper triangular part of <LU>.

     (2) When the field is either 'floatfield' or 'complexfield', the
     numbers <lower-cnd> and <upper-cnd> are lower and upper bounds for
     the infinity norm condition number of <M>.  For all fields, the
     condition number might not be estimated; for such fields,
     'lu_factor' returns a two item list.  Both the lower and upper
     bounds can differ from their true values by arbitrarily large
     factors.  (See also 'mat_cond'.)

     The argument <M> must be a square matrix.

     The optional argument <fld> must be a symbol that determines a ring
     or field.  The pre-defined fields and rings are:

     (a) 'generalring' - the ring of Maxima expressions,

     (b) 'floatfield' - the field of floating point numbers of the type
     double,

     (c) 'complexfield' - the field of complex floating point numbers of
     the type double,

     (d) 'crering' - the ring of Maxima CRE expressions,

     (e) 'rationalfield' - the field of rational numbers,

     (f) 'runningerror' - track the all floating point rounding errors,

     (g) 'noncommutingring' - the ring of Maxima expressions where
     multiplication is the non-commutative dot operator.

     When the field is 'floatfield', 'complexfield', or 'runningerror',
     the algorithm uses partial pivoting; for all other fields, rows are
     switched only when needed to avoid a zero pivot.

     Floating point addition arithmetic isn't associative, so the
     meaning of 'field' differs from the mathematical definition.

     A member of the field 'runningerror' is a two member Maxima list of
     the form '[x,n]',where <x> is a floating point number and 'n' is an
     integer.  The relative difference between the 'true' value of 'x'
     and 'x' is approximately bounded by the machine epsilon times 'n'.
     The running error bound drops some terms that of the order the
     square of the machine epsilon.

     There is no user-interface for defining a new field.  A user that
     is familiar with Common Lisp should be able to define a new field.
     To do this, a user must define functions for the arithmetic
     operations and functions for converting from the field
     representation to Maxima and back.  Additionally, for ordered
     fields (where partial pivoting will be used), a user must define
     functions for the magnitude and for comparing field members.  After
     that all that remains is to define a Common Lisp structure 'mring'.
     The file 'mring' has many examples.

     To compute the factorization, the first task is to convert each
     matrix entry to a member of the indicated field.  When conversion
     isn't possible, the factorization halts with an error message.
     Members of the field needn't be Maxima expressions.  Members of the
     'complexfield', for example, are Common Lisp complex numbers.  Thus
     after computing the factorization, the matrix entries must be
     converted to Maxima expressions.

     See also 'get_lu_factors'.

     Examples:

          (%i1) w[i,j] := random (1.0) + %i * random (1.0);
          (%o1)          w     := random(1.) + %i random(1.)
                          i, j
          (%i2) showtime : true$
          Evaluation took 0.00 seconds (0.00 elapsed)
          (%i3) M : genmatrix (w, 100, 100)$
          Evaluation took 7.40 seconds (8.23 elapsed)
          (%i4) lu_factor (M, complexfield)$
          Evaluation took 28.71 seconds (35.00 elapsed)
          (%i5) lu_factor (M, generalring)$
          Evaluation took 109.24 seconds (152.10 elapsed)
          (%i6) showtime : false$

          (%i7) M : matrix ([1 - z, 3], [3, 8 - z]);
                                  [ 1 - z    3   ]
          (%o7)                   [              ]
                                  [   3    8 - z ]
          (%i8) lu_factor (M, generalring);
                    [ 1 - z         3        ]
                    [                        ]
          (%o8)    [[   3            9       ], [1, 2], generalring]
                    [ -----  - z - ----- + 8 ]
                    [ 1 - z        1 - z     ]
          (%i9) get_lu_factors (%);
                            [   1    0 ]  [ 1 - z         3        ]
                  [ 1  0 ]  [          ]  [                        ]
          (%o9)  [[      ], [   3      ], [                9       ]]
                  [ 0  1 ]  [ -----  1 ]  [   0    - z - ----- + 8 ]
                            [ 1 - z    ]  [              1 - z     ]
          (%i10) %[1] . %[2] . %[3];
                                  [ 1 - z    3   ]
          (%o10)                  [              ]
                                  [   3    8 - z ]

 -- Function: mat_cond
          mat_cond (<M>, 1)
          mat_cond (<M>, inf)

     Return the <p>-norm matrix condition number of the matrix <m>.  The
     allowed values for <p> are 1 and <inf>.  This function uses the LU
     factorization to invert the matrix <m>.  Thus the running time for
     'mat_cond' is proportional to the cube of the matrix size;
     'lu_factor' determines lower and upper bounds for the infinity norm
     condition number in time proportional to the square of the matrix
     size.

 -- Function: mat_norm
          mat_norm (<M>, 1)
          mat_norm (<M>, inf)
          mat_norm (<M>, frobenius)

     Return the matrix <p>-norm of the matrix <M>.  The allowed values
     for <p> are 1, 'inf', and 'frobenius' (the Frobenius matrix norm).
     The matrix <M> should be an unblocked matrix.

 -- Function: matrixp
          matrixp (<e>, <p>)
          matrixp (<e>)

     Given an optional argument <p>, return 'true' if <e> is a matrix
     and <p> evaluates to 'true' for every matrix element.  When
     'matrixp' is not given an optional argument, return 'true' if 'e'
     is a matrix.  In all other cases, return 'false'.

     See also 'blockmatrixp'

 -- Function: matrix_size (<M>)

     Return a two member list that gives the number of rows and columns,
     respectively of the matrix <M>.

 -- Function: mat_fullunblocker (<M>)

     If <M> is a block matrix, unblock the matrix to all levels.  If <M>
     is a matrix, return <M>; otherwise, signal an error.

 -- Function: mat_trace (<M>)

     Return the trace of the matrix <M>.  If <M> isn't a matrix, return
     a noun form.  When <M> is a block matrix, 'mat_trace(M)' returns
     the same value as does 'mat_trace(mat_unblocker(m))'.

 -- Function: mat_unblocker (<M>)

     If <M> is a block matrix, unblock <M> one level.  If <M> is a
     matrix, 'mat_unblocker (M)' returns <M>; otherwise, signal an
     error.

     Thus if each entry of <M> is matrix, 'mat_unblocker (M)' returns an
     unblocked matrix, but if each entry of <M> is a block matrix,
     'mat_unblocker (M)' returns a block matrix with one less level of
     blocking.

     If you use block matrices, most likely you'll want to set
     'matrix_element_mult' to '"."' and 'matrix_element_transpose' to
     ''transpose'.  See also 'mat_fullunblocker'.

     Example:

          (%i1) A : matrix ([1, 2], [3, 4]);
                                      [ 1  2 ]
          (%o1)                       [      ]
                                      [ 3  4 ]
          (%i2) B : matrix ([7, 8], [9, 10]);
                                      [ 7  8  ]
          (%o2)                       [       ]
                                      [ 9  10 ]
          (%i3) matrix ([A, B]);
                               [ [ 1  2 ]  [ 7  8  ] ]
          (%o3)                [ [      ]  [       ] ]
                               [ [ 3  4 ]  [ 9  10 ] ]
          (%i4) mat_unblocker (%);
                                   [ 1  2  7  8  ]
          (%o4)                    [             ]
                                   [ 3  4  9  10 ]

 -- Function: nullspace (<M>)

     If <M> is a matrix, return 'span (v_1, ..., v_n)', where the set
     '{v_1, ..., v_n}' is a basis for the nullspace of <M>.  The span of
     the empty set is '{0}'.  Thus, when the nullspace has only one
     member, return 'span ()'.

 -- Function: nullity (<M>)

     If <M> is a matrix, return the dimension of the nullspace of <M>.

 -- Function: orthogonal_complement (<v_1>, ..., <v_n>)

     Return 'span (u_1, ..., u_m)', where the set '{u_1, ..., u_m}' is a
     basis for the orthogonal complement of the set '(v_1, ..., v_n)'.

     Each vector <v_1> through <v_n> must be a column vector.

 -- Function: polynomialp
          polynomialp (<p>, <L>, <coeffp>, <exponp>)
          polynomialp (<p>, <L>, <coeffp>)
          polynomialp (<p>, <L>)

     Return 'true' if <p> is a polynomial in the variables in the list
     <L>.  The predicate <coeffp> must evaluate to 'true' for each
     coefficient, and the predicate <exponp> must evaluate to 'true' for
     all exponents of the variables in <L>.  If you want to use a
     non-default value for <exponp>, you must supply <coeffp> with a
     value even if you want to use the default for <coeffp>.

     The command 'polynomialp (<p>, <L>, <coeffp>)' is equivalent to
     'polynomialp (<p>, <L>, <coeffp>, 'nonnegintegerp)' and the command
     'polynomialp (<p>, <L>)' is equivalent to 'polynomialp (<p>, L<,>
     'constantp, 'nonnegintegerp)'.

     The polynomial needn't be expanded:

          (%i1) polynomialp ((x + 1)*(x + 2), [x]);
          (%o1)                         true
          (%i2) polynomialp ((x + 1)*(x + 2)^a, [x]);
          (%o2)                         false

     An example using non-default values for coeffp and exponp:

          (%i1) polynomialp ((x + 1)*(x + 2)^(3/2), [x], numberp, numberp);
          (%o1)                         true
          (%i2) polynomialp ((x^(1/2) + 1)*(x + 2)^(3/2), [x], numberp,
                                                                  numberp);
          (%o2)                         true

     Polynomials with two variables:

          (%i1) polynomialp (x^2 + 5*x*y + y^2, [x]);
          (%o1)                         false
          (%i2) polynomialp (x^2 + 5*x*y + y^2, [x, y]);
          (%o2)                         true

 -- Function: polytocompanion (<p>, <x>)

     If <p> is a polynomial in <x>, return the companion matrix of <p>.
     For a monic polynomial <p> of degree <n>, we have '<p> = (-1)^<n>
     charpoly (polytocompanion (<p>, <x>))'.

     When <p> isn't a polynomial in <x>, signal an error.

 -- Function: ptriangularize (<M>, <v>)

     If <M> is a matrix with each entry a polynomial in <v>, return a
     matrix <M2> such that

     (1) <M2> is upper triangular,

     (2) '<M2> = <E_n> ... <E_1> <M>', where <E_1> through <E_n> are
     elementary matrices whose entries are polynomials in <v>,

     (3) '|det (<M>)| = |det (<M2>)|',

     Note: This function doesn't check that every entry is a polynomial
     in <v>.

 -- Function: rowop (<M>, <i>, <j>, <theta>)

     If <M> is a matrix, return the matrix that results from doing the
     row operation 'R_i <- R_i - theta * R_j'.  If <M> doesn't have a
     row <i> or <j>, signal an error.

 -- Function: rank (<M>)

     Return the rank of that matrix <M>.  The rank is the dimension of
     the column space.  Example:

          (%i1) rank(matrix([1,2],[2,4]));
          (%o1)                                  1
          (%i2) rank(matrix([1,b],[c,d]));
          Proviso:  {d - b c # 0}
          (%o2)                                  2

 -- Function: rowswap (<M>, <i>, <j>)

     If <M> is a matrix, swap rows <i> and <j>.  If <M> doesn't have a
     row <i> or <j>, signal an error.

 -- Function: toeplitz
          toeplitz (<col>)
          toeplitz (<col>, <row>)

     Return a Toeplitz matrix <T>.  The first first column of <T> is
     <col>; except for the first entry, the first row of <T> is <row>.
     The default for <row> is complex conjugate of <col>.  Example:

          (%i1)  toeplitz([1,2,3],[x,y,z]);
                                            [ 1  y  z ]
                                            [         ]
          (%o1)                             [ 2  1  y ]
                                            [         ]
                                            [ 3  2  1 ]
          (%i2)  toeplitz([1,1+%i]);

                                        [   1     1 - %I ]
          (%o2)                         [                ]
                                        [ %I + 1    1    ]

 -- Function: vandermonde_matrix ([<x_1>, ..., <x_n>])

     Return a <n> by <n> matrix whose <i>-th row is '[1, <x_i>, <x_i>^2,
     ... <x_i>^(<n>-1)]'.

 -- Function: zerofor
          zerofor (<M>)
          zerofor (<M>, <fld>)

     Return a zero matrix that has the same shape as the matrix <M>.
     Every entry of the zero matrix is the additive identity of the
     field <fld>; the default for <fld> is <generalring>.

     The first argument <M> should be a square matrix or a non-matrix.
     When <M> is a matrix, each entry of <M> can be a square matrix -
     thus <M> can be a blocked Maxima matrix.  The matrix can be blocked
     to any (finite) depth.

     See also 'identfor'

 -- Function: zeromatrixp (<M>)

     If <M> is not a block matrix, return 'true' if 'is (equal (<e>,
     0))' is true for each element <e> of the matrix <M>.  If <M> is a
     block matrix, return 'true' if 'zeromatrixp' evaluates to 'true'
     for each element of <e>.


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