[Numpy-svn] r8386 - trunk/doc/release

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Author: charris
Date: 2010-05-05 10:55:25 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010)
New Revision: 8386

Modified:
   trunk/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst
Log:
Add slogdet to the release notes for 2.0.0.

Modified: trunk/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst	2010-05-05 03:34:51 UTC (rev 8385)
+++ trunk/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst	2010-05-05 15:55:25 UTC (rev 8386)
@@ -48,3 +48,10 @@
 
     >>> np.dot(a, np.dot(b, c))
 
+linalg.slogdet function
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The slogdet function returns the sign and logarithm of the determinant
+of a matrix. Because the determinant may involve the product of many
+small/large values, the result is often more accurate than that obtained
+by simple multiplication.