What is a matrix?
1 Answer
Mar 23, 2015
A matrix is a table of numbers (or other elements) disposed in rows ans columns.
For example:
This is a rectangular matrix called
You can have square matrices when the numbers of rows is equal to the number of columns:
Where
You can also have matrices with one column only or one row only :
these are sometimes called vectors or column vector and row vector.
A bank statement is an example of a matrix: