14 Aug
2009
14 Aug
'09
9:12 p.m.
On 14 Aug 2009, at 18:43, DE wrote:
it's terribly wrong to overload '^' in such a way
Why? The precedence rules? Fair enough - sometimes what's tempting is bad for you, but you still want to try it anyway!
w = wedge(u,v);
w = cross_product(u,v) please :p
Err, that's only true in 3D (vectors of length 3). There's no such thing as a cross product between (say) vectors of length 2,4 or indeed anything else. The cross product is, in effect, a restricted version of the exterior (wedge) product which exists for higher dimensions. -ed