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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:07:05 +0200
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:39:58 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> That is a start. But not enough by any means. All functions should be
> vectorized.

It is ill-defined. E.g. exp(A), where A is a matrix. Is exp(A) a matrix of
exponents or exponent matrix? To me it is the second. A similar example for
vectors: abs V. Is it a vector of absolute values, or maybe ||V||?

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