On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Ronan Lamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le jeudi 01 mars 2012 à 08:20 -0600, Matthew Rocklin a écrit :
>>         I've guessed that reading the code. Would it be hard for me to
>>         implement the missing MatPow function ?
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>> It should be easy to implement such a class. I would suggest the name
>> MatExponential. We already have a MatPow for the case A**b (A a
>> matrix, b a scalar). I would suggest looking at MatPow and MatMul as
>> examples. You'll also have to change the __rpow__ operator in MatExpr
>> (look at the surrounding functions to see what to do). This should
>> allow for the syntax e**A but not exp(A).
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> x**A is a confusing notation and is very rarely used with x != E. We
> should only have exp(A).

I don't see any reason to not support it.  Maybe we could
automatically convert it to exp(log(x)*A) in this case, to make it
clear, though personally I don't even see why we would have to do
that.  If no one uses x != E, then it won't ever be used.

Aaron Meurer

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