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ragged matrix

(data structure)

Definition: A matrix having irregular numbers of items in each row.

See also uniform matrix, sparse matrix.

Note: An upper triangular matrix or a lower triangular matrix are usually not thought of as being ragged since the number of items in each row is regular (changing by one from row to row).

For example

11618912
6
1830

Author: PEB

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Paul E. Black, "ragged matrix", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/raggedmatrix.html