Re: Re: Non-commutative algebra
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- Subject: [mg13365] Re: [mg13280] Re: Non-commutative algebra
- From: MJE <evans.nospam at gte.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:50:18 -0400
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Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > external package. The only convenient mechanism would seem to be the one > mentioned by David Withoff as a possible direction of future development: > that is, one would want built in functions either to switch to > non-commutative algorithms when applied to non-commutative expressions or at > least do nothing, rather than mess up everything, as they tend to do now. > Andrzej > This is in fact the big difference between Wolfram-supported packages and the rest of us. When WRI makes a package, the kernel can change along with it. The rest of us can't pull that off. For something as fundamental as matrix math I would say, it's Wolfram's job. I've looked at NCAlgebra before but in my case I don't recall that it was explicitly a matrix package. I need that. Mark