What took me a long while to appreciate is that inheriting from Numeric wasn't going to do me any good precisely because any operation such as a+b was going to produce an array not one of my new foos, unless I overrode it. So in fact you end up having to override darn near everything. I can only suggest MA as an example. People have succeeded in similar tasks by starting with the MA source and changing it to suit.

-----Original Message----- From: numpy-discussion-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:numpy-discussion-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:13 PM To: numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Dyadic Python

As a help for me learning Dyadic vector analysis, I have been working on a Numpy class for manipulating Dyads. I am wondering if anyone else has any similar interests. Most of the impetus for the work comes from "Methods for Electromagnetic Field Analysis" by Ismo Lindell. In numerous searches I found no computer code dealing with Dyads.

My biggest stumbling block so far is integrating the symbolism of Dyadic analysis into something understandable. Operator overloading isn't going to help me. For example in my program:

A=dyad(a,b) where a and b are complex vectors B=dyad(c,d) " A.dmmd(B) is equivalent to double dyadic multiplication of the dyads A and B. :) In a book this would be written something like A xx B except that the x's would be aligned vertically.

Ok, its an insane project. Rob.

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