Starting diary file diary-04-Oct-2010.txt A = [ .15 -.04 ; .04 .15] b = [ 0 ; 1.6] x = A \ b x = b / A 147 / 49 49 \ 147 A * b b * A b c = [ 3 4] c * A ans = x = c / A x * A c A \ c B = rand(2) A X = A \ B A*X A * X - B A \ B A / B B / A clc axis([-3 5 0 12]) xlabel('x1') ylabel('x2') title('Intersecting lines') x1 = [-3:5] x1 = x2 = .15 * x1 / .04 plot(x1,x2) hold on x2 = (1.6 - .04 * x1) /.15 plot(x1,x2,'r') x = A \ b clc A = rand(3) b =rand(3,1) x = A \ b A*x - b A = [3 1 4 ; 0 1 5 ; 0 0 9] x = A \ b A*x - b b edit bslashtx x = A\b x = bslashtx(A,b) R = rand(3) triu(R) triu(R,1) tril(R) A = [10 -7 0 ; -3 -2 6 ; 5 -1 5] lugui(A) [L,U,p] = lutx(A) L * U A diary off