On Thursday, 13 September 2012 01:04:54 UTC+8, 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). > > Note: > > sage: v=vector(CDF,[2+I,5]) > sage: v > (2.0 + 1.0*I, 5.0) > sage: v*v > 28.0 + 4.0*I > sage: v.column().H*v.column() > [30.0] > > I'd like the third computation to be 30.0. > > both products make sense, in different contexts. The 2nd one is usually referred to as Hermitian one.
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