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Re: FW: Scalars and Matrices:
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: FW: Scalars and Matrices: |
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Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:48:08 -0500 (CDT) |
On 12-Oct-1999, John Day <address@hidden> wrote:
| We really don't need scalars if we account for these special properties
| of 1-by-1 matrices.
>From a programming point of view, I'd prefer to do automatic
conversion to a scalar data type and deal with scalar-matrix and
matrix-scalar operations rather than add extra logic to all functions
that deal with scalars to make them check to see if they are working
with 1x1 matrices.
jwe
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