// Wikipedia URL for General Matrix Multiplication Concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication // This algorithm has multiple functions that ultimately check if the inputs are actually matrices and if two Matrices (that can be different sizes) can be multiplied together. // matrices that are of the same size [2x2]x[2x2], and the second is the multiplication of two matrices that are not the same size [2x3]x[3x2]. // MatrixCheck tests to see if all of the rows of the matrix inputted have similar size columns const matrixCheck = (matrix) => { let columnNumb for (let index = 0; index < matrix.length; index++) { if (index === 0) { columnNumb = matrix[index].length } else if (matrix[index].length !== columnNumb) { console.log('The columns in this array are not equal') } else { return columnNumb } } } // tests to see if the matrices have a like side, i.e. the row length on the first matrix matches the column length on the second matrix, or vise versa. const twoMatricesCheck = (first, second) => { const [firstRowLength, secondRowLength, firstColLength, secondColLength] = [first.length, second.length, matrixCheck(first), matrixCheck(second)] if (firstRowLength !== secondColLength || secondRowLength !== firstColLength) { console.log('These matrices do not have a common side') return false } else { return true } } // returns an empty array that has the same number of rows as the left matrix being multiplied. // Uses Array.prototype.map() to loop over the first (or left) matrix and returns an empty array on each iteration. const initiateEmptyArray = (first, second) => { if (twoMatricesCheck(first, second)) { const emptyArray = first.map(() => { return [''] }) return emptyArray } else { return false } } // Finally, `matrixMult` uses `Array.prototype.push()`, multiple layers of nested `for` loops, the addition assignment `+=` operator and multiplication operator `*` to perform the dot product between two matrices of differing sizes. // Dot product, takes the row of the first matrix and multiplies it by the column of the second matrix, the `twoMatricesCheck` tested to see if they were the same size already. // The dot product for each iteration is then saved to its respective index into `multMatrix`. const matrixMult = (firstArray, secondArray) => { const multMatrix = initiateEmptyArray(firstArray, secondArray) for (let rm = 0; rm < firstArray.length; rm++) { const rowMult = [] for (let col = 0; col < firstArray[0].length; col++) { rowMult.push(firstArray[rm][col]) } for (let cm = 0; cm < firstArray.length; cm++) { const colMult = [] for (let row = 0; row < secondArray.length; row++) { colMult.push(secondArray[row][cm]) } let newNumb = 0 for (let index = 0; index < rowMult.length; index++) { newNumb += rowMult[index] * colMult[index] } multMatrix[rm][cm] = newNumb } } return multMatrix } const firstMatrix = [ [1, 2], [3, 4] ] const secondMatrix = [ [5, 6], [7, 8] ] console.log(matrixMult(firstMatrix, secondMatrix)) // [ [ 19, 22 ], [ 43, 50 ] ] const thirdMatrix = [ [-1, 4, 1], [7, -6, 2] ] const fourthMatrix = [ [2, -2], [5, 3], [3, 2] ] console.log(matrixMult(thirdMatrix, fourthMatrix)) // [ [ 21, 16 ], [ -10, -28 ] ]