> Does it matter whether the lower or upper triangular part is stored? > We should just pick one convention and stick with it. That is simpler > than, say, ATLAS where the choice is one of the parameters passed to > the subroutine. I vote for lower triangular myself, if only because > that was my choice last time I implemented a Cholesky factorization.
Wouldn't a keyword argument make more sense, there's a default, but you aren't denied access to ATLAS? It matters if you pass the factorisation to a legacy code which expects things to be a particular way around. Jon Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion