On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:30:12 PM UTC-7, jason wrote: > > On 9/12/12 7:47 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:04:54 AM UTC-7, jason wrote: > > > > I'm curious: is there a good reason why the product of two complex > > vectors does not conjugate the first vector (which would yield the > > standard inner product for complex vectors). > > > > > > I think because I lost the argument that William advances. But I did > > implement: > > > > sage: v=vector(CDF,[2+I,5]) > > sage: v.hermitian_inner_product(v) > > 30.0 > > Wow, that's way more characters than v.conjugate()*v, which is already > way more than matlab/octave's natural v'*v. >
I wouldn't say "way more". v . h TAB ( v ) That's 7 characters, compared to 4 in v ' * v -- John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
