Re: Motion 31: V04.2 Revision of proposed Level 1 text
Ulrich, Vincent
On 26 Jan 2012, at 13:02, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2012-01-25 12:00:38 +0000, John Pryce wrote:
>> I send herewith a revised draft of the proposed Level 1 text, less
>> decorations, that I originally circulated on 5 Dec 2011.
>
> About the basic arithmetic operations:
> ...
> But why is the dot product included in the basic arithmetic operations?
> I don't see it as important as +, -, *, /. And not more important than
> recip, sqr, case, pown, abs, and perhaps some other operations.
Ulrich: on reflection I agree with Vincent. However useful the dot product is, it is essentially more complicated than +, -, *, /. I think calling it "basic" will cause more disagreement than agreement, so I have removed it from those lists.
John P