👉 Matrices are a type of array data structure used to represent and manipulate rectangular arrays of numbers. They consist of two sets of numbers, known as rows and columns, which can be arranged in any order. Matrices are commonly used in various fields such as engineering, physics, statistics, computer graphics, and machine learning. Matrices can be represented using a system called "row-major" or "column-major", depending on the orientation of the matrix. In row-major format, the rows are stored