Re: Vectors

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On 4/22/11 7:32 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote:
> On Saturday 23 April 2011 06:57:23 sturlamolden wrote:
>> On Apr 20, 9:47 am, Algis Kabaila<akaba...@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
>>
>> Or one of these libraries (ctypes or Cython):
>>
>> BLAS (Intel MKL, ACML, ACML-GPU, GotoBLAS2, or ATLAS)
>> Intel VML
>> ACML-VM
>
> 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.

-- 
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

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Vectors Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-20 17:47 +1000
  Re: Vectors Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2011-04-20 11:07 +0300
    RE: Vectors Andreas Tawn <andreas.tawn@ubisoft.com> - 2011-04-20 15:43 +0200
      Re: Vectors RJB <rbotting@csusb.edu> - 2011-04-20 08:34 -0700
        RE: Vectors Andreas Tawn <andreas.tawn@ubisoft.com> - 2011-04-20 17:49 +0200
        Re: Vectors Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-21 17:25 +1000
          Re: Vectors Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-04-22 13:43 +1200
            Re: Vectors Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-22 20:58 +1000
      Re: Vectors Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2011-04-21 17:07 +0300
      Re: Vectors Jonathan Hartley <tartley@tartley.com> - 2011-04-25 03:49 -0700
        Re: Vectors Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-26 21:26 +1000
  Re: Vectors sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-04-22 13:57 -0700
    Re: Vectors Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-23 10:32 +1000
      Re: Vectors sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-04-22 21:13 -0700
        Re: Vectors Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-23 22:26 +1000
          Re: Vectors sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-04-23 07:02 -0700
    Re: Vectors Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-04-24 18:49 -0500
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