Re: do octave have tensor?

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:07 PM, eric wrote:

> Dear octave(free/open matlab programers):
> 
>  I get from search an article about octave and its 3 degree vector/
> multidimentional matrix/tensor
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?MultidimensionalMatrices
> 
> first of all, if the article's author is right
> then what is difference between tensor and (multidimensionalMatrices/
> a list of vectors)?
> even they are indeed different, do octave implement tensor?
> 
> I search web, I know matlab have tensor
> 
> looking to see any experts' reply, Eric

Yes. Octave does handle tensors, as Matlab does.

For a description of Tensors, you can take a look at the Wikipedia article.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor

Ben