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    <h1>.dmat - dense matrices</h1>
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A .dmat file contains a dense matrix in column major order. It can contain
ASCII or binary data. Note that it is uncompressed so binary only reduces the
file size by 50%. But writing and reading binary is usualy faster. In MATLAB,
binary is almost 100x faster.
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    <h2>ASCII</h2>
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The first line is a header containing:
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    <pre><code>[#cols] [#rows]</code></pre>
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Then the coefficients are printed in column-major order separated by spaces. 
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    <h2>Binary</h2>
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Binary files will also contain the ascii header, but it should read:
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    <pre><code>0 0</code></pre>
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Then there should be another header containing the size of the binary part:
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    <pre><code>[#cols] [#rows]</code></pre>
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Then coefficents are written in column-major order in Little-endian 8-byte
double precision IEEE floating point format.
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    <p><strong>Note:</strong> Line endings must be <code>'\n'</code> aka char(10) aka line feeds.</p>
    <p>See also: <a href=.>file formats</a></p>
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