Thursday, January 8, 2009

Saving Lives with the Transpose

While doing my usual transpose research, I stumbled upon this definition from the American Heritage Medical Dictionary:

transpose (redirected from "Transpose of a Matrix")

v. - to transfer one tissue, organ, or part to the place of another.


A natural extension of this is to write a matrix representation of the body, where each element in the matrix represents a location in the body. Then fill in the matrix with body parts, take the transpose, and that should tell you how to take the transpose of the human body. Try it out and let me know how it goes.



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