[mercury-users] Matricies

[Fergus Henderson]

On 26-Sep-1999, Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK <rejj at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> I was just wondering - what is the preferred method for representing and
> storing a matrix in Mercury? An array of arrays? List of lists?
> I don't need to do any really complex computation on them, basically just
> simple matrix multiplication, inverse, etc.. But I'd like to do it the
> best way nevertheless.. and while I am there, I might as well do it right
> and build a decentish matrix library anyway.

I'm not sure what the best method would be.

The array library is intended as a building block that could be
used to implement a good matrix library.  But implementing matrices
as arrays of arrays may not be best; it might well be better to
implement an MxN matrix as a single array of length M*N.

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