#8825: Improve documentation for function norm
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Reporter: johan | Owner: jason
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: trivial | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: documentation | Keywords:
Author: Johan Grönqvist, Minh Van Nguyen | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Minh Van Nguyen | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
See my suggestion on [http://groups.google.com/group/sage-
devel/browse_thread/thread/2e10a6e35237c87e?hl=en sage-devel]. I
personally think it would useful to also add
1) External links to Mathworld and Wikipedia
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_norm
* http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Norm.html
* http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MatrixNorm.html
* http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorNorm.html
These would certainly help people like me, who are not mathmaticians and
might want to find out a bit more about a topic.
2) Document the nearest Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Macsyma commands
when possible.
For Mathematica, it is Norm[] See:
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Norm.html
For MATLAB it is norm()
http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/norm.html
I'm not sure about Maple - but Norm() might be the right one.
http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=VectorCalculus%2fNorm
(Please check '''all'' these - I'm not a mathematician).
Having a list of the nearest equivalent commands in the commercial
packages would be useful if we ever provide any documentation helping
people migrate from those packages to Sage.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this ticket, and my comments
should certainly '''not''' be interpreted as need_work. But I think the
documentation could be made more useful by having links and names of the
commands in the external packages.
Dave
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