On Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:08:10 AM UTC-5, Andreas Noack wrote: > > 2) Having functions for calculating the symmetric and antisymmetric part. > I'm fine with adding these, but I think that most users would like to use > the symmetric annotation after operations like V*D*V' where it doesn't > matter which part you use. >
That's true, but since computing (A+A')/2 is cheap and it is more generally useful, it would probably be better to default to that rather than just taking the upper half.
