Charles R Harris wrote:
> Matrix rank has nothing to do with numpy rank. Numpy rank is simply the
> number of indices required to address an element of an ndarray. I always
> thought a better name for the Numpy rank would be dimensionality, but
> like everything else one gets used to the numpy
Sasha wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Matrix rank has nothing to do with numpy rank. Numpy rank is simply the
>> number of indices required to address an element of an ndarray. I always
>> thought a better name for the Numpy rank would be dimensionality, but like
On 8/25/06, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matrix rank has nothing to do with numpy rank. Numpy rank is simply the
> number of indices required to address an element of an ndarray. I always
> thought a better name for the Numpy rank would be dimensionality, but like
> everything else
Hi,On 8/25/06, Stefan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:10:24PM -0400, Sasha wrote:> I would welcome an effort to make the glossary more novice friendly,> but not at the expense of oversimplifying things.>> BTW, do you think "Rank ... (2) number of orthogonal dimens
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:10:24PM -0400, Sasha wrote:
> I would welcome an effort to make the glossary more novice friendly,
> but not at the expense of oversimplifying things.
>
> BTW, do you think "Rank ... (2) number of orthogonal dimensions of a
> matrix" is clear? Considering that matrix is
On 8/24/06, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Hey Sasha. Your defnition may be more correct, but I have to confess
> I don't understand it.
>
>"Universal function. Universal functions follow similar rules for
> broadcasting, coercion and "element-wise operation"."
>
> What is "co
On 8/24/06, Sasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/24/06, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[snip] it would be
> > nice to add a concise definition of "ufunc" to the numpy glossary:
> > http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Glossary.
> >
>
> done
>
> > Can anyone come up with such a definition?
>
> I
On 8/24/06, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[snip] it would be
> nice to add a concise definition of "ufunc" to the numpy glossary:
> http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Glossary.
>
done
> Can anyone come up with such a definition?
I copied the definition from the old Numeric manual.
> Here's m
On 8/24/06, Sebastian Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what this question is asking, so I'll answer what I think> it is asking.>> The mean, min, max, and average functions are *not* ufuncs. They are> methods of particular ufuncs.
>Yes - that's what wanted to hear ! I'm just tryin
