[Python-ideas] [RFC] draft PEP: Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Mar 17 06:50:32 CET 2014


Ron Adam writes:

 > The best I can come up with is to use '^' instead of dot.

This symbol is used to denote the "wedge product" of vectors, so it's
pretty clearly inappropriate.  I forget the exact definition, but it's
related to the area (volume) of the parallelpiped spanned by the
vectors.



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