Question

I am trying to multiply two 3×3 matrices. The first 2 numbers in the first
and second row are the only correct answer. What am I doing
wrong? Is the stuff I need declared in mult_matrices?

#include <stdio.h>

void mult_matrices(int a[][3], int b[][3], int result[][3]);
void print_matrix(int a[][3]);

int main()
{
    int p[3][3] = {{1, 2, 3},{4, 5, 6}, {7, 8, 9}};
    int q[3][3] = {{10, 11, 12}, {13, 14, 15}, {16, 17, 18}};
    int r[3][3];

    mult_matrices(p, q, r);
    print_matrix(r);
}

void mult_matrices(int a[][3], int b[][3], int result[][3])
{
    int i, j, k;
    for(i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
            for(j = 0; j < 3; j++)
            {
                    for(k = 0; k < 3; k++)
                    {
                            result[i][j] +=  a[i][k] *  b[k][j];
                    }
            }
    }
}

void print_matrix(int a[][3])
{
    int i, j;
    for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
            for(j = 0; j < 3; j++)
            {
                    printf("%d\t", a[i][j]);
            }
            printf("\n");
    }
 }

Answer 1

Looks like you’re not initializing your result matrix.

i.e. Change:

int r[3][3];

to

int r[3][3] ={{0,0,0},{0,0,0},{0,0,0}};