[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 7:35 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At least in the United States, and I assume some other places as well, > matrices are usually considered to act from the left. So the kernel > of a matrix A would be the set of vectors x such that Ax = 0. In > sage, the ker

[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-26 Thread Mike Hansen
I had made this a ticket a few days ago: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1587 --Mike On 12/26/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 7:35 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At least in the United States, and I assume some other places as well,

[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 26, 2007 8:51 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had made this a ticket a few days ago: > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1587 Thanks. I've updated the ticket based on the above discussion, and suggested that the fix is to improve the documentation. Literally changing

[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-26 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 26, 2007 11:10 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 8:51 PM, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I had made this a ticket a few days ago: > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/1587 > > Thanks. I've updated the ticket based on the above discussion,

[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 27, 2007 3:50 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 7:35 PM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At least in the United States, and I assume some other places as well, > > matrices are usually considered to act from the left. So the kernel > > of

[sage-support] Re: kernel function documentation is misleading

2007-12-30 Thread Georg Graf
Sorry for aggrandizing myself here as a non developer, i just read this thread and agree 100% with Ondrej, API's should be broken if necessary, priority should be put on doing things the right way, and this kernel thing is definitely a trap i would have steped into, especially with the current docu