On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Omar <omar.anto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anybody know why there are two methods to invert matrices? > > One of them is called m.inverse() and the other is m.invert(). > > invert() seems to be only defined for dense matrices with rational > entries, and inverse() seems to work for both sparse and dense > matrices over any field. > > Is there a good reason to have invert()? I can imagine something > happening along the lines of somebody trying to override inverse for > dense rational matrices to give a better algorithm or whatever and > calling the method invert instead of inverse by accident...
That sounds likely. The somebody was probably me. I hope somebody opens a track ticket to deprecate, then remove (in some number of months) "invert". > By the way, inverse is a much better name, since invert sounds very > imperative and you might expect invert to invert the matrix in place > (that's what I thought it did initially). > +1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
