Given A a 3x3 matrix and B a 3x1 matrix (or column vector), I am asked to calculate A + B. Both are initially filled with one's. To my knowledge the two matrices would have to be of the same n×m dimensionions. However, if I do the addition in Python (using Numpy matrices and the '+' operator) I get a 3x3 matrix filled with two's.
How is this matrix and column vector added? Might I be misunderstanding what Python does?
Usually, the addition of matrix and vector is not defined. So if you were asked to calculate such thing, you have to make it clear what he/she means.
I think this is what you get (in this example, $M + v$). If you try another combination (like $M + u$ in the example), you'll see what happens. Let $M = (m_1, m_2, m_3)^T$. Then it returns $$ M + v := (m_1 + v, m_2 + v, m_3 + v)^T $$ somehow. So it's a problem of Numpy and I think Stack Overflow is more appropriate place to ask if you want to know why this happens.