numpy (matrix solver) - python vs. matlab

[someone]

On 05/02/2012 04:47 PM, Steven_Lord wrote:
>
> Russ, you and the OP (and others) may be interested in one of the books
> that Cleve Moler has written and made freely available on the MathWorks
> website:
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/moler/
>
> The chapter Linear Equations in "Numerical Computing with MATLAB"
> includes a section (section 2.9, starting on page 14 if I remember
> correctly) that discusses norm and condition number and gives a more
> formal statement of what you described. The code included in the book is
> written in MATLAB, but even if you don't use MATLAB (since I know this
> has been cross-posted to comp.lang.python) there's plenty of good,
> crunchy mathematics in that section.

I use matlab more than python. I just want to learn python, which seems 
extremely powerful and easy but yet, I'm a python beginner.

Thank you very much for the reference, Mr. Lord. I'll look closely at 
that Moler-book, in about 1/2 hour or so.... Looking forward to learning 
more about this...