Vectors

[rusi]

On Apr 25, 4:49 am, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/11 7:32 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote:
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> > On Saturday 23 April 2011 06:57:23 sturlamolden wrote:
> >> On Apr 20, 9:47 am, Algis Kabaila<akaba... at pcug.org.au>
> > wrote:
> >>> Are there any modules for vector algebra (three dimensional
> >>> vectors, vector addition, subtraction, multiplication
> >>> [scalar and vector]. Could you give me a reference to such
> >>> module?
>
> >> NumPy
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> >> Or one of these libraries (ctypes or Cython):
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> >> BLAS (Intel MKL, ACML, ACML-GPU, GotoBLAS2, or ATLAS)
> >> Intel VML
> >> ACML-VM
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> > Thanks for that.  Last time I looked at numpy (for Python3) it
> > was available in source only.  I know, real men do compile, but
> > I am an old man...  I will compile if it is unavoidable, but in
> > case of numpy it does not seem  a simple matter. Am I badly
> > mistaken?
>
> On UNIX machines with compilers and headers properly installed, it's really
> pretty straightforward.

Mostly (on ubuntu/debian) that means do this [Untested]
$ aptitude build-dep python-numpy
Then you should be ready to build/compile numpy from source