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Reference Guide for OpenMatrix Language Functions
The Reference Guide contains documentation for all functions supported in the OpenMatrix language.
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trace
Compute the trace of a matrix, the sum of the diagonal elements.

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  OpenMatrix is a mathematical scripting language.
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  The Reference Guide contains documentation for all functions supported in the OpenMatrix language.
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      Compute the condition number of a matrix.
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      Determines if the input is a banded matrix.
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      Determines if the input is a diagonal matrix.
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      Determines if an input is a matrix with sparse storage.
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      Determines if x is a square matrix.
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      Determines if the input is a lower triangular matrix.
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      Determines if the input is a upper triangular matrix.
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      Kronecker matrix product object.
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      Compute matrix and vector norms.
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      Compute an orthonormal basis for the nullspace of a matrix.
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      Compute an orthonormal basis for the column space of a matrix.
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      Solve a system of linear equations with the preconditioned conjugate gradient method.
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      Compute the matrix pseudo-inverse.
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      QR decomposition.
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      Compute the rank of matrix A.
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      Compute the 1-norm estimate of the reciprocal condition number.
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      Schur decomposition.
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      Sparse matrix creation.
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      Sparse identity matrix creation.
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      Set non-zero matrix elements to 1.
    - svd
      Singular value decomposition.
    - toeplitz
      Computes the Toeplitz matrix.
    - trace
      Compute the trace of a matrix, the sum of the diagonal elements.
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      Matrix transpose.
    - tril
      Returns a lower triangular matrix.
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      Returns a upper triangular matrix.
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trace

Compute the trace of a matrix, the sum of the diagonal elements.

Syntax

R = trace(A)

Inputs

A: Dimension: matrix

Outputs

R: The trace.

Examples

R = trace([1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9])

R = 15