# Matrix operations not symmetric

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/matrix-operations-not-symmetric/69244>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** linearalgebra\
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/matrix-operations-not-symmetric/69244 "2021-10-05T17:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@A\_C](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/A_C)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/matrix-operations-not-symmetric/69244/5 "2021-10-06T06:21:14Z")

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Thank you for pointing to the discussion. From comment of [lucas711642](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/indexing-into-matrix/45806) I understand that the reason for this behavior is that `A[1,:]` being an adjoint does not generalize to multidimensional arrays with dimension greater than 2.

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