Saturday, December 5, 2015

What is a submatrix? Contiguous?

I always thought that a submatrix is a contiguous part of a matrix. Like

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as shown in http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Submatrix.html.

However in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)#Submatrix there is a different definition: take any number of rows and columns away and the result is a submatrix:

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This version will allow non-contiguous regions to be part of the submatrix.

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