What is the dimension of the vector space of all $m \times n$ matrices?
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A standard basis for this space consists of matrices $E_{ij}$ which have a 1 at row $i$, column $j$, and 0 elsewhere. Since there are $m \times n$ such positions, the dimension is the product of the number of rows and columns.
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