•IfamatrixAhasmrowsandncolumns,thentheorderorsize
ofthematrixAisdefinedtobe��(readasmbyn).
OrderoftheMatrix
�=
497
261
The Matrix Ais of order 2×3
Example
•Asquarematrixinwhichallthediagonalentriesare1andthe
restareallzeroiscalledaunitmatrix.
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is said to be a unit matrix if
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0�??????�≠�
UnitMatrix
�=
100
010
001
�=
10
01