matrix1 / matrix2 ;
matrix / scalar ;
matrix / vector ;
The division operator (/) divides each element of matrix1 by the corresponding element of matrix2, producing a matrix of quotients.
You can also use the division operator to conveniently divide all elements of a matrix, each column of a matrix, or each row of a matrix.
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When you use the matrix / scalar form, each element of the matrix is divided by the scalar value.
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When you use the matrix / vector form, each row or column of the
matrix is divided by a corresponding element of the vector.
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If you divide by an
column vector, each row of the matrix is divided by the corresponding row of the vector.
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If you divide by a
row vector, each column of the matrix is divided by the corresponding column of the vector.
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When an element of a matrix contains a missing value, the corresponding element of the quotient is also a missing value.
If a divisor is zero, the operation displays a warning and assigns a missing value for the corresponding element in the result.
The following statements compute the matrices c and d, shown in Figure 24.10:
a = {1 2,
3 4};
b = {5 6,
7 8};
c = a/b;
d = a/4;
print c, d;