SOLUTION: what is the difference between diagonal matrix and scalar matrix?

SOLUTION: what is the difference between diagonal matrix and scalar matrix?

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Question 370129: what is the difference between diagonal matrix and scalar matrix?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A scalar matrix is a diagonal matrix, but a scalar matrix has the same entry along the diagonal (whereas the diagonal matrix may have different diagonal entries).
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