Re: gsl_quaternion proposition

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit at mailsnare dot net>]

Hi,

picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 22:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
> "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I demand that Robert G. Brown are belonging when Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0400:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > doing Geometric Algebra, by the way.
> > >
> > > I thought geometric algrebra was just for 3D space and mosly aimed at
> > > college students; are you implying that there's a geometric algebra
> > > vocabulary for general Clifford algebras and/or supersymmetry? Does
> > > it get used much in the broader context?
> >
> > Geometric algebra is the modern name for a (geometric interpretation of
> > a) Clifford algebra.  Perhaps it also fixes up a few things Clifford
>
>
> Hello
>
> look at http://www.perwass.de/cbup/programs.html
> he wrote a clifford algebra library and it seems to be GPL. So no need
> to add it to gsl The work have already be done.

I am not agree:
it far better to deal with only one library
than a full collection of them written differently.

my 2 cents,
Jerome

> Nevertheless as gsl_complex exist don't you think we can add a gsl_quaternion to have possibilities to do "basic" calculation with this mathematical object ?
> Peoples like me are just using it for it's isomorphisme with O(3), and I do not think that I am the only one ;).


> Frederic

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