Left matrix division

[Carlos295pz]

(12-17-2018 01:49 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  Matrix multiplication is noncommutative, so you can't just reverse the positions of A and B like that.

For square matrices A and B (of the same size), Matlab's A\B is roughly equivalent to A⁻¹B, and A/B is roughly equivalent to AB⁻¹ (like on HP Prime), although Matlab supports left and right division of non-square matrices too.

It is the evolution of mathematics xD