Jason Grout <jason-sage <at> creativetrax.com> writes: [clip] > I think we've established that the other software mentioned does indeed > use the spectral norm by default. I'm still curious: what was the > reason for breaking with the norm (pun intended :)? Any chance that in > a (probably far distant) future release, the norm default could be > changed to conform with matlab/octave/mathematica's view of the world? > It's not a huge deal to me now that I know to watch out for it, but it > did just bite me and a student a few times.
The trail leads to here: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/attachment/ticket/36/numpy-6-norm-change- default.diff Seems like the chances of learning the reason why this change was done are pretty slim. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion