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Cracovians adopted a column-row convention for designating individual elements as opposed to the standard row-column convention of matrix analysis. This made manual multiplication easier, as one needed to follow two parallel columns (instead of a vertical column and a horizontal row in the matrix
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notation.) It also sped up computer calculations, because both factors' elements were used in a similar order, which was more compatible with the
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came into general use. Any modern reference to them is in connection with their non-associative multiplication.
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will generally be different; thus, Cracovian multiplication is non-
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function. Specifically, the Cracovian product of matrices
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Kraków
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related reading
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inline citations
improve
introducing
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astronomical
geodetic
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
linear equations
matrix
transpose
matrix multiplication
Cayley
associative
quasigroup
sequential access memory
magnetic tape memory
drum memory
random access memory
Cracow
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Asteroid
1751
Categories
Astrometry
History of astronomy
Matrix theory

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