Raul,

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:02:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> I have been trying to think up a useful response here, but I just do not
> know enough from this description to make good choices.

Well, I appreciate the attempt. :) I don't know enough to know what
information would be necessary to make good choices.

> Typically, I build up the expressions that I find useful first and then
> come up with names for them later.  Sometimes I re-arrange things that work
> so that they are easier for me to describe.\

Fair enough. I expect that with time, one develops an intuition for
where to begin.

> And, yes, it's easy to transform between different array representations.
>  But there's a lot of representations and a lot of transformations between
> them and a lot of ways of using each representation, so it's hard to give
> specific advice.  (As a general rule though, I try to arrange things so
> that they are simple.)
> 
> And, yes, putting each "column" in its own variable can be a good approach.

I'll continue with this approach and see what I come up with.

Thanks again,

-- 
Daniel Lyons
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