Re: GNUstep for Engineers

[Daniel J Farrell]

Hi Adam and folks,

A N-dimensional 'tensor' class would be useful, it wouldn't  
nescessarly require linear algebra functions for how I intend to use  
it. I would more likely use it as a N-dimensional 'storage space' to  
set and get values.

Does anybody have any in put on how this might be realised? Adam has  
obviously done a lot of work with arrays and matrices so I thought  
you might have some idea.  Are you aware of any pit-falls in this  
approach?

So far I have made my own 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D classes, but this  
approach (at least my implentation!) is cluncky and not very  
satisfying to say the least. It would be nice to unify these classes  
into one and just be able to specify some dimensional space of a  
certain size.

Cheers,

Dan.


On 13 Mar 2007, at 04:32, Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
>
> > One question about MathArray, since it seems that Adam is the  
> > maintainer, does it hold NSNumbers or C types?  I was a bit  
> > confused by the README, but I think it says it offers it, I just  
> > want to double check since I have your attention!
> It would be not very efficient for it to hold NSNumbers, although  
> can easily transfer data from matrices to/from individual  
> NSNumbers.  It holds all C data types plus complex numbers.
>
>
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