Computes the exponential of a square Input Matrix. Wire data to the Input Matrix input to determine the polymorphic instance to use or manually select the instance.


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The following equation defines the exponential of a matrix:

where I is the identity matrix.

This VI uses the Pade Approximation method to calculate the exponential.

The matrix exponential plays a key role in solving linear differential equations. For example, consider the linear differential equation y'(x) = Ay(x), where y(x) equals the following vector:

The solution to this linear differential equation is y(x) = eAxy(0).