How to Use nonzero in a Sentence

nonzero

adjective

• Take a four-by-four matrix with three nonzero elements.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• There is a nonzero chance of that happening, which honestly would be an inspired way to close this series out.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
• Additional nonzero numbers around that diagonal make the band wider.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
• This matrix can also be compressed into a sparse data type, getting rid of the zeros and saving only the nonzero elements.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• The situation is usually nonzero, in other words.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
• In sparse computation, only the nonzero elements of the vector need be considered.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• If the only nonzero numbers in a matrix are on the line that runs from its upper lefthand corner to its lower righthand corner, that matrix has a band of width 1.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
• With a sparse number format, the computational cost depends on the number of overlapping nonzero values in the problem.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• In matrix-vector multiplication, one of the most common operations in AI workloads, all computations except those involving two nonzero elements can simply be skipped.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026