Singular matrix issue with Numpy

Question

I am trying to multiply a vector(3 by 1) by its transpose(1 by 3). I get a (3 by 3) array but I cannot get its inverse. Any idea why?

import numpy as np

c=a         


        

Answer 1

As it was already mentioned in previous answers, your matrix cannot be inverted, because its determinant is 0. But if you still want to get inverse matrix, you can use np.linalg.pinv, which leverages SVD to approximate initial matrix.