On Monday, November 26, 2012 2:34:21 PM UTC-5, Ken Levasseur wrote:
>
> I'm writing up some notes on matrices for my students and ran into this 
> inconsistency (I think).  I start by creating a matrix and augment its 
> transpose, just to have a non-square matrix:
>
> A=Matrix([[3,1],[-1,2]])
> B=A.transpose()
> C=A.augment(B)
>
> Now if I ask for the echelon form of C, I get this result, which isn't 
> fully reduced:
>
> C.echelon_form()
>       [1 5 5 3 ]
>       [0 7 6 5 ]
>
>
> That's fine because 
> C.parent()
>        Full MarixSpace of 2 by 4 dense matrices over Integer Ring
>
>
I don't know whether this is useful, but we added C.rref() (reduced row 
echelon form) a while back for precisely this reason, pedagogically...

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