---
title: "Math 339SP -- Matrix products"
author: "Tim Chumley"
date: "Spring 2024"
output:
  pdf_document: default
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(tinytex)
library(expm)
```


# Matrix power calculations

The commands below demonstrate how to input a matrix, entry by entry,
and do some computations with matrix multiplication and exponentiation.

```{r}
P = matrix(c(0, 1/3, 0, 1/3, 1/3, 0,
             1/2, 0, 0, 1/2, 0, 0,
             0, 0, 0, 1/2, 1/2, 0,
             1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 0, 1/4, 0,
             1/4, 0, 1/4, 1/4, 0, 1/4,
             0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0), nrow = 6, ncol = 6, byrow = T)
P %*% P # the matrix P times P
P %^% 2 # the matrix P^2
(P %^% 2)[4,5] # the (4,5) entry of P^2
```



