Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time
Date	2011-05-03 18:29 +1200
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Terry Reedy wrote:
> The trick is that replacing x with j and evaluating 
> therefore causes (in Python) all the coefficients of x (now j) to be 
> added together separately from all the constant terms to reduce the 
> linear equation to a*x+b (= 0 implied).

Hmmm... so if we used quaternions, could we solve systems
of linear equations in 3 variables?

-- 
Greg

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        Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-03 02:00 -0400
          Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-05-03 18:29 +1200
            Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-03 11:49 -0400
            Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-05-03 09:32 -0700
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