>>>>> "hvn" == hvn <huubvanniekerk at yahoo.com> writes:
hvn> Hi,
hvn> Using Scilab 5.4.0 on Linux, I wanted to calculate the square of a 3x3
hvn> matrix, and instead of
hvn> following the rules of linear algebra by doing A11*A11+A12*A21+A13*A31
hvn> for the (1,1) element of the result, Maxima just arithmetically squared
hvn> each element of the matrix. A multiplication of 2 unequal matrices did go
hvn> well btw. So how do I get the correct square of a matrix?
"? matrix" is your friend. It's not clear exactly what you did, but
the documentation there says that A^2 squares the elements of a
matrix, but A^^2 is the matrix product of A and A, which is probably
what you wanted.
Ray