Re: Normalize a vector ????
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- Subject: [mg16599] Re: [mg16542] Normalize a vector ????
- From: Jurgen Tischer <jtischer at col2.telecom.com.co>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:55:06 -0500
- Organization: Universidad del Valle
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Alessandro, Options[Normalize] shows that Dot is used as InnerProduct, but Dot[{1,I},{1,I}]==0. Try using InnerProduct->(#1.Conjugate[#2]&). Jurgen alessandro agresti wrote: > > Let's take the complex-vector vett={1, i} > The normalized complex-vector is {1/sqrt(2), i/sqrt(2)}; > in fact : Conjugate[vett].vett , we get 1. > Now let's take the LinearAlgebra`Orthogonalization` packet and > let's do : Normalize[vett]. > We get 1/0 infinity warning...... > why??? > > thank You for Your BIG help. > alessandro > > -------------------------- > Alessandro Agresti > Universita' degli Studi di Firenze > Dipartimento di Fisica, sezione di Fisica Superiore > via Santa Marta, 3 50139 Firenze ITALIA > tel: 0039 055 4796410 fax: 0039 055 483750 > e_mail : agresti at dffs.unifi.it > WebPage : http://biz-a.dffs.unifi.it/~agresti/
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- Normalize a vector ????
- From: "alessandro agresti" <agresti@dffs.unifi.it>
- Normalize a vector ????