Re: A clarification question
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- Subject: [mg38741] Re: [mg38705] A clarification question
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:29:50 -0500 (EST)
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Sounds like something my students would write. Anyway, maybe it's something like this: Given vectors y and z, find the vector x (in some subspace?) such that <x,z> is a close as possible to <y,z>; that is, minimize Abs[<x-y,z>]. ?? --- Selwyn Hollis David R. Hardoon wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a clarification question that maybe you could tell > me what is meant. > > "find the vector which has the closest inner product with vector y" > > and say we have vector x and z. > > can any one clarify what you think is meant by closest? > > thanks in advance, > David. > > > " The hunger for knowledge only grows as one knows more....." > > David R. Hardoon David.R.Hardoon at cs.rhul.ac.uk > Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London > Phone: +44 1784 443912 Fax: +44 1784 439786 > Mobile: +44 7967 634954 www: http://g4.cs.rhul.ac.uk > > > > >
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- A clarification question
- From: "David R. Hardoon" <davidh@cs.rhul.ac.uk>
- A clarification question