is there a way to do element-by-element multiplication as in Gauss 
and MATLAB, as shown below? Thanks.

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a

        1.0000000
        2.0000000
        3.0000000
x

        1.0000000        2.0000000        3.0000000
        2.0000000        4.0000000        6.0000000
        3.0000000        6.0000000        9.0000000
a.*x

        1.0000000        2.0000000        3.0000000
        4.0000000        8.0000000        12.000000
        9.0000000        18.000000        27.000000


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