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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 18:29:30 +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