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jeanluct / braidlab

Matlab package for analyzing data using braids
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What's the right number of punctures in cycle? #76

Closed jeanluct closed 9 years ago

jeanluct commented 9 years ago

Some discussion with Oyku suggest that using the canonical loop(n) to look for cycles might not be the best thing to do. loop(n-1) might be preferable. The reason is that with loop(n) we miss the finite-order braids.

The argument against using loop(n-1) was that the generator n-1 acts trivially. But maybe this doesn't matter?

jeanluct commented 9 years ago

This is fixed: loop(n) no longer has a basepoint. Can't really tell which commit since the conversion to Git seems to have lost some per-file history. Grrr.