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Re: sqrt() of a Matrix in a DLD
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Al Niessner |
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Re: sqrt() of a Matrix in a DLD |
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Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:16:28 -0800 |
I would like whatever sqrt() I use in my DLD to behave identically to
sqrt() at the octave interpreter.
Sorry if my earlier post made it sound like I wanted to do a
matrix-sqrt. I simply want to take the sqrt of every element in a
matrix.
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:39, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 5-Mar-2004, Al Niessner <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | I did a 'grep -i sqrt' in include/octave-2.1.52/octave and did not find
> | anything that would indicate how to take the square root of a matrix. My
> | m-file has sqrt(m) where m is a diagonal matrix. I could not find a
> | similar function in the header files. Anyone know the correct syntax?
>
> I think this came up on the list recently. In Octave, mapper
> functions like sqrt are implemented specially so that they can
> properly handle conversion from real to complex, etc. For example, if
> you write
>
> sm = sqrt (m);
>
> then sm will be complex if any element of m is negative. Do you want
> to preserve that behavior in your C++ function?
>
> jwe
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Al Niessner <address@hidden>
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
All opinions stated above are mine and do not necessarily reflect
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