Dear R family I have a following question. Suppose I have a matrix as follows, for instance: tau= 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 I want to calculate (-m) power of tau, for example, m=893. When I run tau^2, the outcome is just tau. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance. best moohwan