Define and use addition and subtraction of matrices, scalar multiplication, matrix multiplication, multiplicative identity and multiplicative inverse.

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Why matrix multiplication works

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Stage 1 — columns of A are images of î and ĵ. Stage 2 — Av = x₁·col₁ + x₂·col₂ with colour-matched arithmetic.

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