Hello, I was planning to work on the patch for this; however, is "normal form" known terminology for dividing a vector by the leading entry? A Google search returns no such use. Wouldn't it be better for it to be named something like divided_by_leading, to remove ambiguity and potential confusion?
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:55:24 UTC-7, Chris wrote: > > It was pointed out to me that vector normalization in Sage is not doing > what most people would think it should do. Rather than divide by the norm > of the vector, right now the implementation is to divide the vector by the > first non-zero part. This was pointed out to me by someone who teaches > undergrads and found it frustrating that Sage was not doing the standard > normalization. I think it needs to be changed. > > Anyways, I have opened a trac ticket, take a look: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13393. > > It was suggested that this come to a vote. I vote that it be changed. > Opinions anyone? > > -- 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.
