zpo - Power

Command Line

zpo [Options] Input N Result 

Options

Standard options, see Standard Command Line Options

Input

Input file.

N

Exponent.

Result

Output file.

Input Files

Input

Input file.

Output Files

Result

Output file.

Description

This program calculates the N-th power of a matrix or permutation. The exponent N may be negative. For compatibility with the old zsm program, the power may be specified in the zsm format. The following example shows two equivalent ways to calculate the 69-th power of a matrix:

zpo matrix 69 result
zpo matrix pwr69 result