On 10/31/07, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
Charles R Harris wrote:
On 10/31/07, Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu> wrote:
1.0**numpy.array([1,2,3]) array([ 1., 1., 1.]) 1.0**numpy.mat([1,2,3]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for ** or pow(): 'float' and 'matrix'
Why the restriction for matrices?
Looks like it just got overlooked. It works fine for 2D arrays.
In [11]: 1.0**eye(3) Out[11]: array([[ 1., 1., 1.], [ 1., 1., 1.], [ 1., 1., 1.]])
For ndarrays, it does elementwise exponentiation, so it is neither here nor there with respect to matrices. What is the definition of a scalar raised to a matrix power? I don't ever recall seeing one.
I suppose the usual: a**m = exp(ln(a)*m) but that isn't the broadcast version. Chuck