Function takes as input two nonempty matrices A and B and returns the product AB

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My task is to write a MATLAB function that takes as input two nonempty matrices A and B and returns the product AB where the number of columns in A is the same as the number of rows in B. I have a small program written so far, however it is not fully developed. I am asking for assistance on where to go next with developing a program that is accurate. I apologize that there is not much in my program so far. Here is what I have so far:
function AB = ex2(A,B)
%
%
[NRows,NCols] = size(A);
[NRows,NCols] = size(B);
AB = zeros('NRows of A, NCols') % I am not sure what to put here
for row = 1:NRows
for col = 1:NCols
AB = A(row,col) * B(row,col);
end
end

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Asad (Mehrzad) Khoddam
Asad (Mehrzad) Khoddam on 20 Oct 2020
function AB = ex2(A,B)
%
%
% we need rows and columns of both A and B
% ColsA should be equal to RowsB
[RowsA,ColsA] = size(A);
[RowsB,ColsB] = size(B);
AB = zeros(RowsA, ColsB);
for row = 1:RowsA
for col = 1:ColsB
AB(row,col) = sum(A(row,:)'.*B(:,col));
end
end
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Sophie Culhane
Sophie Culhane on 20 Oct 2020
I am not able to use the sum command, is there another alternative that would work the same?
Asad (Mehrzad) Khoddam
Asad (Mehrzad) Khoddam on 20 Oct 2020
Yes
function AB = ex2(A,B)
%
%
% we need rows and columns of both A and B
% ColsA should be equal to RowsB
[RowsA,ColsA] = size(A);
[RowsB,ColsB] = size(B);
AB = zeros(RowsA, ColsB);
for row = 1:RowsA
for col = 1:ColsB
s = 0;
for k=1:colsA:
s = s + A(row,k)*B(k,col);
end
AB(row,col) = s;
end
end

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James Tursa
James Tursa on 20 Oct 2020
This is a matrix multiply, so you need to keep the rows and columns of the inputs separately. E.g.,
[NRowsA,NColsA] = size(A);
[NRowsB,NColsB] = size(B);
Then, the product will have dimensions NRowsA x NColsB. I.e.,
AB = zeros(NRowsA,NColsB);
For your result AB, you will be looping over the size of AB, so
for row = 1:NRowsA
for col = 1:NColsB
% code goes here to figure out AB(row,col)
end
end
You would need to write code to calculate the AB(row,col) element. You could do a dot product calculation here, or you could write another loop to interatively calculate it.

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