On Sep 22, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:11:08 AM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > normal_form() is good, and to be standard with the other code packages I've > seen, dividing by the L2-norm should be normalize(). > > As Robert pointed out, normalize() is bad because the name implies that the > vector is mutated (which is not what the method does). It should have been > normalization() from the start. > > So the updated proposal is: > 1) deprecate normalize() and point to normalization() and normal_form() > 2) normalization() is division by L2-norm > 3) normal_form() is the old normalize() > 4) alias norm() -> normalization() to save typing
Isn't v.norm() supposed to denote the… norm of v ? (the docstring says that by default it is the L2 norm). I would find it quite confusing that v.norm() returns a vector instead of the norm itself (a scalar) Charles -- 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.
