Why does Matlab omit some entries? In this case, it omits the 0s, but it replaced other numbers with the asterisk before. Doesn't only happen with the adjoint function.

Answer 1

[nick]

Hi Alexander,

I understand that you want to remove the asterisk that is displayed after any operation is performed on the given matrix A.

The output display format of the numeric variables is set to 'RATIONAL'. In this format, the values are approximated by the ratio of small integers within a tolerance of 1e-6*norm. Numbers with a large numerator or denominator are replaced by matrix. You can change the format from 'RATIONAL' to 'LONG' to view the number in decimal format by the help of following command :

format long

You can refer to the following documentation to learn more about different output display formats:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/format.html

Hope this helps.