Practical C Programming

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How about finding an identity matrix, in other words, finding out whether the matrix entered by the user is an identity matrix or not. Let me tell you—a matrix is said to be an identity matrix if it is a square matrix and all the elements of the principal diagonal are ones and all other elements are zeros. An identity matrix of the order 3 x 3 may appear as follows:

Figure 1.23

In the preceding diagram, you can see that the principal diagonal elements of the matrix are 1's and the rest of them are 0's. The index or subscript location of the principal diagonal elements will be arr[0][0], arr[1][1], and arr[2][2], so the following ...