[PATCH] Use the inf-norm rather than 2-norm in issymmetric; add ishermitian.
Jason Riedy
ejr at cs.berkeley.edu
Fri Dec 7 13:08:53 CST 2007
And Rolf Fabian writes:
> After the current change of 'issymmetric'
> complex hermitian matrices are not any more considered
> to be 'symmetric' as before and many existing programs
> fail or return weird results.
I would argue that many existing programs *already* return weird
results with no warning. Complex symmetric is a very, very
different beast than complex Hermitian. I'd be more comfortable
seeing issymmetric removed altogether than changed to be
isnotreallysymmetricbutwegottakeepthis.
And yes, there are a zillion other classes. My main point was to
support a common structure while normalizing a bit of terminology
between Octave, LAPACK, and linear algebra.
Jason
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