I have a code of matrix operations add, subtract, multiply. The code generates two matrices with random elements within the dimension the user states. My questions is that I have to create a thread for every element of the output Matrix. I tried using an array to store the threads, but it returns an error for "mul" which is the variable I used for the method that implements run. There are two different classes with the Thread array in the class of the main method of course and the next class contains all my Matrix operation algorithms and also contains the class "MatrixThreads" which implements Runnable for the run method. If anyone can take a look and see if they can help me, I would appreciate it tremendously.
The class MatrixOperations
public class MatrixOperations{
public static void main(String args[]) throws InterruptedException{
int row1,col1,row2,col2;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("\n\n Input Matrix 1 dimensions (ROWS space COLUMNS):");
row1= sc.nextInt();
col1 = sc.nextInt();
System.out.print("\n\n Input Matrix 2 dimensions (ROWS space COlUMNS):");
row2= sc.nextInt();
col2 = sc.nextInt();
int operation;
System.out.print("\n\n Select the operation to executed: 1. Add 2. Subtract 3. Multiply \n > ");
operation = sc.nextInt();
Matrix result;
Matrix m1 = new Matrix(row1, col1);
Matrix m2 = new Matrix(row2, col2);
int m3 = col1*row2;
Thread myThreads[]= new Thread[m3];
for(int i=0; i<m3;i++){
myThreads[i] = new Thread(new MatrixOperations(mul));//here is the error
myThreads[i].start();
}
for (int i=0; i<m3;i++){
myThreads[i].join();
}
switch(operation){
case 1:
result = m1.add(m2);
System.out.println("\n\n First Matrix: \n " + m1.getPrintableMatrix());
System.out.println("\n\n Second Matrix: \n " + m2.getPrintableMatrix());
System.out.println("\n\n Resultant Matrix: \n " + result.getPrintableMatrix());
break;
case 2:
result = m1.subtract(m2);
System.out.println("\n\n First Matrix: \n " + m1.getPrintableMatrix());
System.out.println("\n\n Second Matrix: \n " + m2.getPrintableMatrix());
System.out.println("\n\n Resultant Matrix: \n " + result.getPrintableMatrix());
break;
case 3:
result = m1.dotProduct(m2);
System.out.println("\n\n First Matrix: \n " + m1.getPrintableMatrix());
System.out.println("\n\n Second Matrix: \n " + m2.getPrintableMatrix());
System.out.println("\n\n Resultant Matrix: \n " + result.getPrintableMatrix());
break;
default: System.out.println("\nInvalid operation......\n");break;
}
System.out.print("\n\n");
}
}
The Matrix class
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
public class Matrix {
private int row,column;
private double [][] matrixElements;
class ThreadMatrix implements Runnable{
private Matrix mul;
public ThreadMatrix(Matrix mul){
this.mul = mul;
}
@Override
public void run() {
mul.add(mul);
}
}
public Matrix (int rows, int columns){
this.row= rows;
this.column = columns;
matrixElements = new double[row][column];
populatematrix(-100,100);
}
public Matrix(double[][] matrixArray){
this.row = matrixArray.length;
this.column = (matrixArray[0]).length;
matrixElements = new double [row][column];
for (int i=0; i<row;i++){
for (int j=0; j<column;j++){
matrixElements[i][j] = matrixArray[i][j];
}
}
}
private void populatematrix(int min, int max){
Random randnum = new Random();
Random rand = new Random();
for (int i=0; i<row; i++){
for (int j= 0;j<row;j++){
matrixElements[i][j] = rand.nextInt((max - min) + 1) + min;
}
}
}
public Matrix add(Matrix otherMatrix){
double[][] resultMatrixArray = new double[this.row][this.column];
for (int i=0; i<row; i++){
for (int j=0; j<column; j++){
resultMatrixArray[i][j] = this.matrixElements[i][j] + otherMatrix.matrixElements[i][j];
}
}
return new Matrix(resultMatrixArray);
}
public Matrix subtract(Matrix otherMatrix){
double[][] resultMatrixArray = new double[row][column];
for (int i=0; i<row; i++){
for (int j=0; j<column; j++){
resultMatrixArray[i][j] = this.matrixElements[i][j] - otherMatrix.matrixElements[i][j];
}
}
return new Matrix(resultMatrixArray);
}
public Matrix dotProduct(Matrix otherMatrix){
double[][] resultMatrixArray = new double [row][column];
double sum = 0;
if (this.column !=otherMatrix.row)
System.out.println("\n\n Matrices Multiplication is not possible...Invalid Dimensions...\n\n");
else {
for (int c=0; c<this.row;c++){
for (int d = 0; d<otherMatrix.column;d++){
for (int k = 0; k<otherMatrix.row; k++){
sum = sum+((this.matrixElements[c][k])*(otherMatrix.matrixElements[k][d]));
}
resultMatrixArray[c][d]=sum;
sum = 0;
}
}
}
return new Matrix(resultMatrixArray);
}
public String getPrintableMatrix(){
String result ="";
for (double[] roww: matrixElements){
for (double j:roww){
result +=""+j + "";
}
result +="\n";
}
return result;
}
}