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Rules of transposition

(AT)T=A,(A+B)T=AT+BT,(kA)T=kAT(A^T)^T = A, \qquad (A+B)^T = A^T + B^T, \qquad (kA)^T = kA^T
kk
a scalar

Transposition undoes itself and distributes over addition and scalar multiplication. Only over a product does it reverse the order.

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years it has appeared
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