[Python-ideas] [RFC] draft PEP: Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 17:49:54 CET 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> (And U+2297 CIRCLED TIMES is actually used conventionally to
> mean exactly the opposite: elementwise multiplication -- the "Hadamard
> product" -- as opposed to matrix multiplication).
>

It's actually worse: CIRCLED TIMES is commonly used for tensor or outer
product that is opposite to the proposed inner product meaning of vec @ vec.
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