Re: [Help-gsl] Vector and matrix views

[Brian Gough]

James Bergstra writes:
 > The same trick works for matrix types.  Matrices have two sizes instead of 
 > one,
 > and the 'stride' between columns on the same row is always assumed to be 1, 
 > but
 > other than that, the things are analogous.  For some reason, a matrix stride
 > (from row to row) is in a field called 'tda'.

In fortran it is LDA (standing for "leading dimension of A" ) with
column-major matrices.

In C the matrices are row-major so everything is reversed, hence it
was named "trailing dimension of A" = tda.

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Brian Gough

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