On Apr 7, 5:04 am, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > ... is the determinant? Does this make sense to anyone? Am I missing > something? I can't think of a reason why, and the documentation > (sage.matrix.matrix2.Matrix._abs_) does not shed any extra light on > the reason. > > This came up on sage-support > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/9134... > > where Justin Walker's surmisition is that the vertical bars used as > notation for the determinant is the reason. > > Shooting from the hip, I'd be inclined to remove (deprecate) this, but > would happily be corrected/illuminated.
+1 it doesnt even satisfy the triangle inequality > > Rob -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
