On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 22:18, Marten van Kerkwijk
<m...@astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> I also note that for complex numbers, `vecmat` is defined as `x†A`,
> i.e., the complex conjugate of the vector is taken. This seems to be the
> standard and is what we used for `vecdot` too (`x†x`). However, it is
> *not* what `matmul` does for vector-matrix or indeed vector-vector
> products (remember that those are possible only if the vector is
> one-dimensional, i.e., not with a stack of vectors). I think this is a
> bug in matmul, which I'm happy to fix. But I'm posting here in part to
> get feedback on that.

Does matmul not mean "matrix multiplication"?

There is no conjugation in matrix multiplication.

Have I misunderstood what matmul is supposed to be? (If it does mean
anything other than matrix multiplication then it is an extremely poor
choice of name.)

--
Oscar
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