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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: how to print an array range?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:58:24 +0200
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Date: 2012-06-27T08:58:24+02:00
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> The type in question, Real_Matrix, is intended to model mathematical
> matrices, not to be a general-purpose array.

Yes.  But that shouldn't keep us from having a better solution than the
conventional one.  Allowing matrices with indexes symmetric around 0
means that you can solve some problems with out having to keep track of
$M_{i-2,j+2}$ (or was it $j-2$) as we have to in symbolic mathematics.

> Of course, I'm not a mathematician, so I might be mistaken.

As a mathematician (or maybe it is really as a physicist), I'm quite
happy with the extra expressiveness of the Ada matrix packages.

Greetings,

Jacob
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