Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#5201 new enhancement
make solve understand matrix equations
Reported by: | jason | Owned by: | burcin |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-wishlist |
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Description
I think it would be a great thing if solve could recognize matrices and that two matrices are equal if each entry is equal. I believe MMA does this (but it's easier there; matrices are nothing more than nested lists). It'd certainly make certain things I do more natural if I could do:
solve(matrixA==matrixB)
and that was equivalent to:
solve([i==j for i,j in zip(matrixA.list(), matrixB.list())])
Okay, so now that I've written my piece, I suppose the next step is to open a trac ticket, write a patch to implement it, and post it for review :).
Change History (10)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
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comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by
argh! I looked at the list and thought "the first item is the ReST transition, so I have to pick the second item". Apparently I was thinking that the next release was already out and 3.3 was the ReST transition.
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comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by
Could this be accomplished by overriding the comparison operator for the matrix class?
for example
def __richcmp__(self, other_matrix, cmptype): if cmptype == 2: #this is the '==' operator if is_Matrix(other_matrix): if False in [i==j for i,j in zip(self.list(), other_matrix.list())]: return False else: return True
I'm just not sure where the 'matrix class' is. This would allow comparisons like
sage: matrixA == matrixB True
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by
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You bring up a good point, and make me doubt whether the feature request is even feasible. Certainly it's probably not a beginner ticket after all. The problem is that we already have an == operator:
sage: a=matrix(SR,2,[x,x^2,x+1,x+4]) sage: b=matrix(SR,2,[4,3,2,1]) sage: a==b False
That means that all solve will see is False. Instead, we want something like:
sage: SR(a)==SR(b) ([ x x^2] [x + 1 x + 4]) == ([4 3] [2 1])
(i.e., we want the == in the solve to construct an equation, which it does for symbolic objects. One of the issues at heart here is that a symbolic object wrapping a Sage matrix is different from a Sage matrix containing symbolic objects.
So I'm going to take off beginner status for this ticket here. It would still be nice if solve(SR(a)==SR(b)) worked in the above example.
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Which part of no non-ReST tickets against 3.4 is hard to understand? :p
Cheers,
Michael