Augmented Matrices

Description

The Sage matrix method .augment() will join two matrices, side-by-side provided they both have the same number of rows. The same method can be used to augment a matrix with a column vector. We can augment the matrix

(1)
\begin{align} A = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & -1 & 2 \\ 2 & 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} \end{align}

with the column vector

(2)
\begin{align} \mathbf b = \begin{pmatrix} 1 \\ 8 \\ 5 \end{pmatrix} \end{align}

to form the augmented matrix

(3)
\begin{align} M = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & -1 & 2 & 1\\ 2 & 1 & 1 & 8\\ 1 & 1 & 0 &5 \end{pmatrix}. \end{align}

Sage Cell

A = matrix(QQ, 3, 3, [[1, -1, 2], [2,  1, 1], [1,  1, 0]])
b = vector(QQ, [1, 8, 5])
M = A.augment(b)
M

Options

Option

The option subdivide=True will create a matrix of the form

(4)
\begin{align} M = \left( \begin{array}{ccc|c} 1 & -1 & 2 & 1\\ 2 & 1 & 1 & 8\\ 1 & 1 & 0 &5 \end{array} \right). \end{align}

A = matrix(QQ, 3, 3, [[1, -1, 2], [2,  1, 1], [1,  1, 0]])
b = vector(QQ, [1, 8, 5])
M = A.augment(b, subdivide=True)
M

Tags

CC: math.la.i.mat.augmented

Primary Tags: Linear algebra: Systems of linear equations.

Secondary Tags: Systems of linear equations: Augmented matrices

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Author: R. Beezer

Date: 24 Jul 2017 16:59

Submitted by: Tom Judson

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