On 1/5/12 10:16 AM, Diab Jerius wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 21:36 -0500, chm wrote:
I propose we use "shape" as the standard term to
describe the set of dimension extents for a piddle.
Excellent idea.
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It may be well to use terms that are the same as those of other
computational systems, to make it easier to swap between them/transcribe
code/argue over which is better/...
However, NumPy uses the term rank to give the number of axes (or
dimensions) to an array, and shape as the specific size/number of
elements/.. of an array, as described at
http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial#head-6a1bc005bd80e1b19f812e1e64e0d25d50f99fe2
which use appears to be dis-favored by the discussion so far ;-)
Not sure what other systems such as octave use,
Doug
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