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Question: Zero vectors and matrices

Question:Zero vectors and matrices

John Fredsted 2243
January 05 2014
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Why does the act of multiplying a vector or a matrix with zero produce not a zero vector or a zero matrix, but in both cases zero scalarly? An example:

Vector(4),
Matrix(4),
0*Vector(4),
0*Matrix(4);

Mathematically it makes no proper sense, and annoyingly it forces one to make some special code-adjustments to treat differently nonzero- and zero multiplication.

Important (note added): The problem is present only when the Physics package is loaded, see comment below.
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