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luamatrix provides operations on matrices and vectors whose elements are real, complex, or symbolic. It is implemented entirely in Lua as tables. A complex number data type is also included.

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API: A list of functions:

matrix.add matrix.columns matrix.concath matrix.concatv matrix.conjugate matrix.copy matrix.cross matrix.det matrix.div matrix.divnum matrix.dogauss matrix.getelement matrix.gsub matrix.invert matrix.ipairs matrix.latex matrix.len matrix.mul matrix.mulnum matrix:new matrix.normf matrix.normmax matrix.pow matrix.print matrix.random matrix.remcomplex matrix.replace matrix.root matrix.rotl matrix.rotr matrix.round matrix.rows matrix.scalar matrix.setelement matrix.size matrix.solve matrix.sqrt matrix.sub matrix.subm matrix.tocomplex matrix.tostring matrix.tosymbol matrix.transpose matrix.type

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Square root of a matrix [1] [2][3]

Tensors [4]

"Denman�Beavers square root iteration" [2]

Complex abs [5]

B = A^(1/p) generalized for integer p > 2 is noted here [6]

Another approach is in "A new sqrtm for Matlab" ([7] or [8]) cited by Octave, though perhaps cannot be extended as well to M^{1/n} for n not equal to 2.

M^x (for matrix M and complex x) is in general defined as expm(logm(M)*x), just like in the real and complex cases. logm and expm [9] can be understood as Taylor expansions in terms of non-negative integer powers of M (again, analogous to the real and complex cases). Evaluation is discussed in "A Schur-Parlett Algorithm for Computing Matrix Functions" [10]. That is all getting somewhat complicated to (re)implement robustly and perhaps outside the main scope of this module. --DavidManura

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