Re: Removing broadcasting from Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/12/15 Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>:
> tor, 15 12 2011 kl. 02:42 -0500, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
>> Can we change the wording? I really think "broadcasting" is a clearer
>> term instead of having to expand the BSX acronym... or perhaps the
>> reference to bsxfun will make people look up that function?
>
> Just a note from the ignorant: I really don't understand the word
> "broadcasting" -- to me it sounds like something related to television
> or networking.

A broadcast is when something is spread out, expanded, copied and
multiplied, like EM waves spread from one antenna to many others to
reach viewers. A vector can be broadcast across a matrix when added,
or two vectors can be broadcast across each other to obtain a matrix.

- Jordi G. H.