Java program to multiply two matrices

This java program multiply two matrices. Before multiplication matrices are checked whether they can be multiplied or not.

Java programming code

import java.util.Scanner;
 
class MatrixMultiplication
{
   public static void main(String args[])
   {
      int m, n, p, q, sum = 0, c, d, k;
 
      Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
      System.out.println("Enter the number of rows and columns of first matrix");
      m = in.nextInt();
      n = in.nextInt();
 
      int first[][] = new int[m][n];
 
      System.out.println("Enter the elements of first matrix");
 
      for ( c = 0 ; c < m ; c++ )
         for ( d = 0 ; d < n ; d++ )
            first[c][d] = in.nextInt();
 
      System.out.println("Enter the number of rows and columns of second matrix");
      p = in.nextInt();
      q = in.nextInt();
 
      if ( n != p )
         System.out.println("Matrices with entered orders can't be multiplied with each other.");
      else
      {
         int second[][] = new int[p][q];
         int multiply[][] = new int[m][q];
 
         System.out.println("Enter the elements of second matrix");
 
         for ( c = 0 ; c < p ; c++ )
            for ( d = 0 ; d < q ; d++ )
               second[c][d] = in.nextInt();
 
         for ( c = 0 ; c < m ; c++ )
         {
            for ( d = 0 ; d < q ; d++ )
            {   
               for ( k = 0 ; k < p ; k++ )
               {
                  sum = sum + first[c][k]*second[k][d];
               }
 
               multiply[c][d] = sum;
               sum = 0;
            }
         }
 
         System.out.println("Product of entered matrices:-");
 
         for ( c = 0 ; c < m ; c++ )
         {
            for ( d = 0 ; d < q ; d++ )
               System.out.print(multiply[c][d]+"\t");
 
            System.out.print("\n");
         }
      }
   }
}

Download Matrix multiplication program class file.

Output of program:

This is a basic method of multiplication, there are more efficient algorithms available. Also this approach is not recommended for sparse matrices which contains a large number of elements as zero.