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Linear Algebra for Java
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Matrices should support exponentiation with floating point exponents #111

Open vkostyukov opened 11 years ago

vkostyukov commented 11 years ago

See details in this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18729470/inaccurate-matrix-power-in-java

SamoylovMD commented 10 years ago

The problem is to write two methods: one for integer exponents (which could be realized by simple multiplying) and one for floating (which is a huge problem, as we can see in this paper: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cv/researchpdf/19ways+.pdf).