Boundary Diagonals of Matrix

This program prints boundary diagonals of a matrix.

Problem Statement

Write a Java program to print boundary diagonals of a 4x4 matrix.

Source Code

1 public class MatrixBoundaryDiagonals {
2 public static void main(String[] args) {
3 System.out.println("Eduinq Matrix Boundary Diagonals");
4 int[][] A = {
5 {1,2,3,4},
6 {5,6,7,8},
7 {9,10,11,12},
8 {13,14,15,16}
9 };
10 System.out.print("Main diagonal: ");
11 for(int i=0;i<4;i++) System.out.print(A[i][i]+" ");
12 System.out.print("\nSecondary diagonal: ");
13 for(int i=0;i<4;i++) System.out.print(A[i][4-1-i]+" ");
14 }
15 }

Program Output

Eduinq Matrix Boundary Diagonals
Main diagonal: 1 6 11 16 
Secondary diagonal: 4 7 10 13 

Explanation

Main diagonal elements are accessed as A[i][i] and secondary diagonal elements as A[i][n-1-i], and separate loops print both, demonstrating boundary diagonal extraction on a 4x4 matrix.

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