Ian S. Worthington wrote:
It implements them as a conceptual subset of stems, and they are indexed with
strings rather than by integers which actually makes them rather more powerful
once one breaks out of the array mindset.
"All generalities are false" (?)
I'm not sure what you mean by the "array mindset"? Do you
seriously advocate solving a determinant by defining it as
DET.ONE.ONE, DET.ONE.TWO, etc. rather than DET.1.1, etc.? I
don't consider this a mindset, but rather a prudent approach
(and I realize that the computation in ForTran or PL/I would be
faster, but could also be less accurate).
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
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