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A great deal of information in everyday life can be represented in a two-dimensional table, called a matrix. Table 9.1 shows the milkman’s weekly order from one household. The information is compact, and easy to read. This type of information storage is commonly used in computers.

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© 1987 G. D. Buckwell

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Buckwell, G.D. (1987). Matrices. In: Work Out Mathematics GCSE. Macmillan Work Out Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09462-2_10

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