matrix multiplication (newbie question)

[Charles R Harris]

On 11/8/06, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/06, izak marais <izakmarais at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this is an obvious question, but what is the easiest way to
> > multiply matrices in numpy? Suppose I want to do A=B*C*D. The ' * '
> operator
> > apparently does element wise multiplication, as does the 'multiply'
> ufunc.
> > All I could find was the numeric function 'matrix_multiply, but this
> only
> > takes two arguments.


Same with the operator *, it takes two arguments but is in infix order, i.e.,
left side and right side.

If B and C and D are matrices, then '*' is matrix multiplication.


And if they are arrays:

A = dot(B,dot(C,D))

Python has a dearth of recognized operators which makes this necessary once
'*' is used for elementwise multiplication, it's a long standing complaint.
You can use matrices in numpy, in which case '*' is used for matrix
multiplication like in matlab, but I think it would be better to get used to
using arrays as they are the numpy core.

Chuck
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