Array operation for computing the dot product?

Ellery Newcomer ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu
Wed Feb 3 13:23:17 PST 2010


On 02/03/2010 03:09 PM, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:19:57 +0100, Michiel Helvensteijn
> <m.helvensteijn.remove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> bearophile wrote:
>>
>>>> Indeed. The difficult question is, what would the syntax be?
>>>
>>> What about the simper:
>>> x.dot(y)
>>
>> I don't like symmetric operations with an asymmetric syntax.
>>
>> Better: dot(x, y)
>> Even better: dot_product(x, y)
>> Funner: sum(x .* y)
>
> Weirder:
>
> x · y
>

I vote obscure unicode character \u2743: heavy chevron snowflake

x ❆ y



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