Re: Bases and other strange things

2012-05-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:50:58AM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 5/23/2012 4:53 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/23/2012 1:03 AM, Russell Standish wrote: The definition is a somewhat wordy, but essentially technically correct, form of the standard definition of a basis in Linear Algebra. What is

Re: Bases and other strange things

2012-05-23 Thread Russell Standish
The definition is a somewhat wordy, but essentially technically correct, form of the standard definition of a basis in Linear Algebra. What is your question, exactly? Cheers On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:09:07AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Folks, Lizr's resent post got me thinking

Re: Bases and other strange things

2012-05-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/23/2012 1:03 AM, Russell Standish wrote: The definition is a somewhat wordy, but essentially technically correct, form of the standard definition of a basis in Linear Algebra. What is your question, exactly? Hi Russell, Could you elaborate on the dependence of the basis being given

Re: Bases and other strange things

2012-05-23 Thread meekerdb
On 5/23/2012 4:53 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/23/2012 1:03 AM, Russell Standish wrote: The definition is a somewhat wordy, but essentially technically correct, form of the standard definition of a basis in Linear Algebra. What is your question, exactly? Hi Russell, Could you

Bases and other strange things

2012-05-22 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi Folks, Lizr's resent post got me thinking again about the concept of a basis and reading the wiki article brought up a question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_%28linear_algebra%29 In linear algebra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_algebra, a *basis* is a set of linearly