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Matrix and Vector Types

Matrix and vector are special data types in MQL5 which enable linear algebra operations. The following data types exist:

Template functions support notations like matrix<double>, matrix<float>, vector<double>, vector<float> instead of the corresponding types.

Matrix and vector initialization methods

Function

Action

Eye

Return a matrix with ones on the diagonal and zeros elsewhere

Identity

Create an identity matrix of the specified size

Ones

Create and return a new matrix filled with ones

Zeros

Create and return a new matrix filled with zeros

Full

Create and return a new matrix filled with given value

Tri

Construct a matrix with ones at and below the given diagonal and zeros elsewhere

Init

Initialize a matrix or a vector

Fill

Fill an existing matrix or vector with the specified value