I have no problem with an Euclidian norm in any n-space.
However this is a norm of a single vector .NOT two independent vectors in the same 2D space.
en treats the latter as a single 4D vector. - which isn't right.

Don

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On 20/12/2013 4:37 AM, EelVex wrote:
You can apply an Euclidian norm in any n-dimensional space you like.
What do you mean it might not apply in this case?



On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Don Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:

I have little  problem with complex numbers, having used them for the last
70 years and surviving math and other grad courses dealing with them (at U
of Alberta,  U of Illinois -Champlain Urbana)  where I struggled through a
PhD in EE
I also have dealt with (complex number ) matrices considerably larger than
2 by 2 and with higher order sets of differential equations, In both cases,
nonlinearity lifts its ugly head. Hey, when dealing with power systems and
machines, big messy problems exist .

My problem is not with complex numbers but with the verb 'en' which works
with any single vector. but if you give it 2 -2D vectors (i.e complex
numbers) it treats the components of the two vectors (say 1j2 , 4j10) as if
they are a single 4D vector.
I really don't think the Euclidian norm applies in this case. If so,
please let me know how.

Don






On 17/12/2013 8:32 PM, km wrote:

There are uses for such vectors, along with 2 by 2 matrices of complex
numbers, in the theory and practice of two differential equations with two
unknown functions.  This is the kind of math engineers usually learn in
their third year of college or university.  Certain problems become easier
to do when you use complex numbers and matrices.  Today's software takes
away most of the drudgery!

I have to admit that in second year courses complex numbers and matrices
tend to be Chapter 10 of a ten-chapter book, for example Gilbert Strang's
Introduction to Linear Algebra, used in sophomore courses at MIT and at my
school the University of Houston.

--Kip Murray

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  On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Don Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
I have some problem here with the 2D complex vector.
Either 1j2 and 4j10 are vectors (2D) measured from the origin OR they
specify a vector in terms of  two end points.
In the first case they each have independent norms  1.414 and 2.236  as
given by (|)
In the second case the vector is,for example, the difference (+/-)
3j8which has a norm 8.544
when en produces the same result for a 4D vector 1 2 4 10 and for 2 2D
vectors, we are somehow sending one of these into the third and fourth
dimensions.

My problem is that a norm is defined for each of the vectors and or the
  vector result of operations on these vectors.   en appears to be work for
a single vector in any dimensional space but the Euclidean norm is a
measure of the length of an individual vector- not of two independent
vectors in the same space.

Don Kelly

  On 16/12/2013 7:24 AM, Bo Jacoby wrote:
NB. I would omit ("1) and arrange multiple vectors in columns.
       en =: [: %: [: +/(* +)
       ]zz =: |: 2 2 $ 1j1 1j1 1j2 4j10 NB. two column vectors
1j1  1j2
1j1 4j10
     en 1 2 4 10 NB. norm of 4D real vector
11
     en 1j2 4j10 NB. 2D complex vector
11
     en zz  NB. norms of column vectors
2 11






Den 15:42 mandag den 16. december 2013 skrev Lippu Esa <
[email protected]>:
   Very nice indeed!

Esa
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Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Length of a vector

      |@j./"1 yy
    5 13
17 25


  On 16-12-13 04:38, km wrote:
This is an easy one, but let's see what you come up with.

The Euclidian norm or length of a vector is the square root of the
sum of the squares of its components.  Write verb  en  below.  It should be
able to find the length of a vector of any number of components.

       ]yy =: 2 2 2 $ 3 4 5 12 8 15 7 24
3  4
5 12

8 15
7 24
       en yy  NB. lengths of 3 4 and 5 12 and 8 15 and 7 24
     5 13
17 25

-- Kip Murray

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