Matrices meme generator

There is a format which uses elements for matrices such that

a b  *  e f  =  10a+e   10b+f
c d     g h     10c+g   10d+h

which is funny because this is not how matrix multiplication works.

Here:

• mats.py generates elements for matrices in this format with 0<a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h<10 with ones that look too symmetrical omitted and outputs this into results.txt.
• build-worksheet.py generates a LaTeX worksheet drawing 20 random items from results.txt and outputs worksheet.tex.

At present, results.txt is 73 items that are output from mats.py as is, and results-squares.txt is a further set of 24 items where a=e, b=f, c=g and d=h, i.e. a matrix squared.

Also worksheet-sm.tex, worksheet-sm.pdf and worksheet-sm.png are a version I reformatted a bit to post on social media 5/8/24. I posted this on Mastodon here.