On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net > wrote:
> I guess I'll become accustomed to it over time. I have some interesting > things to do for which I will need the facilities of numpy. > > I realized where I got into trouble with some of this. I was not > differentiating between the dimensionality of space and that of a matrix > or array. I haven't had to crank out math and computer work for quite > awhile. Further, I've been doing a lot of reading on the Big Bang, and > the dimensionality of space. I'm presently strongly biased towards > thinking about space. For example, when I say 2D, I'm thinking of plane > geometry space, and 3D as the world we live in. > > Thanks to all on this thread. > > Ah, you got confused between number of elements (spatial dimension) vs number of indices (programming dimensions). Programming dimensions are more like the dimensions of a box or container, i.e., width x height (2 dimensional array) or width x height x depth (three dimensional array). You can put stuff in a container and the dimensions tell you how it is arranged inside. Chuck
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