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27 Jan
2012
27 Jan
'12
10:53 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:47, Sturla Molden <sturla@molden.no> wrote:
Why is the non-linear LS solver in sp.optimize called leastsq, whereas the linear solver in sp.linalg is called lstsq? Wouldn't a consistent name be better?
I personally don't think so. I prefer that different functions that do different things with different signatures have different names. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco