[Scilab-users] {EXT} Help for . operator

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Hello,

The problem is the actual tolerance of Scilab which allows to omit the 
dot fot the power operator:

--> [1 2 3]^2
  ans  =

    1.   4.   9.

although Matlab does not allow it:

 >> [1 2 3]^2
Error using  ^
Incorrect dimensions for raising a matrix to a power. Check that the 
matrix is square and the power is a scalar. To perform elementwise 
matrix powers, use '.^'.

S.

Le 08/06/2020 à 11:21, Dang Ngoc Chan, Christophe a écrit :
> Hello Pierre,
>
>> De : Perrichon
>> Envoyé : lundi 8 juin 2020 11:07
>>
>> I don't understand le role of the « point » operator '.'
> The dot is used to have an element-wise operation.
>
> The difference is when you work with matrices, e.g. the product * will make a matrix product
>
> C = A*B -> C(i, j) = sum_k (A(i, k), B(k, j))
>
> but .* will make the elementwise product
>
> C = A.*B -> C(i, j) = A(i, j)*B(i, j)
>
> See https://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/2/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/help.scilab.org/docs/6.1.0/en_US/dot.html
>
> regards
>
> --
> Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
> Mechanical calculation engineer
>
>
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