On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 19:29, Marten van Kerkwijk <m...@astro.utoronto.ca> wrote: > > > Why do these belong in NumPy? What is the broad field of application of > > these functions? And, > > does a more general concept underpin them? > > Multiplication of a matrix with a vector is about as common as matrix > with matrix or vector with vector, and not currently easy to do for > stacks of vectors, so I think the case for matvec is similarly strong as > that for matmul and vecdot.
If either argument is conjugated then I would not describe this simply as "multiplication". A different terminology would be better (and perhaps different function names). -- Oscar _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
