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Re: matrices as vectors
Posted:
Feb 20, 2013 1:04 PM
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In article <496eaca6-79de-4d35-bd4b-190428fb2af2@googlegroups.com>, leonard14279@gmail.com writes:
>Had the idea to represent a 2d-matrix as a 1d-vector.
That's how most (if not all) programming languages do it.
>Need a function to map [ row, col ] indices to an index [ n ], and vice-versa.
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>Then the rest should be straightforward.
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>So we have two functions ...
>Then the rest of the code can be refactored to use the 1d-vector representation of a 2d-matrix.
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>The question is, are there already existing formulas for matrix operations, where the matrix is represented as a 1d-vector?
Yes, and this approach can be generalized to p-dimensional arrays, as well.
See any book on data structures, or possibly Section 8.9 of:
<http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/PPJv12pdf/ch8V12.pdf>
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