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Re: Removing broadcasting from Octave


From: Michael D Godfrey
Subject: Re: Removing broadcasting from Octave
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:27:00 -0800
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On 12/15/2011 08:11 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
So, BSX, broadcasting, recycling, or our own word. This comes to mind:

    http://xkcd.com/927/

I was going by the most famous of those, because much e-ink has been
spilled in the blogosphere over the wonders of Numpy broadcasting.

- Jordi G. H.
Lets stick with broadcasting. About 40 years ago we called it replication,
but this is irrelevant.
The idea has been rediscovered many times and there
is no possibility of finding THE right name.  The important thing is to explain
it clearly in the Manual so people can understand and use it. 

Michael


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