Features

An instance of the Matrix class is a mutable object modelling a mathematical matrix.

• It implements common matrix operations and properties.
• It is completely 1-indexed.
• The stop index is always included in any slice.

Every matrix element is an instance of a subclass (Element) of python’s decimal.Decimal so they support all operations and methods implemented by decimal.Decimal but the subclass, Element implements support for inter-operation with float instances.

Even though a Matrix instance is mutable, it provides a few methods that return a new matrix instance.

For demonstrations of the features described here, see the sample files.

Sub-sections

• Matrix Initialization
• Matrix Object Interactions
• Matrix Properties
• Matrix Operations
• Tests for matrix properties and special matrices
• Matrix views
• Other operations on matrices
• Solutions to systems of linear equations