On 12/15/2011 08:11 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
So, BSX, broadcasting, recycling, or our own word. This comes to mind:
http://xkcd.com/927/
I was going by the most famous of those, because much e-ink has been
spilled in the blogosphere over the wonders of Numpy broadcasting.
- Jordi G. H.
Lets stick with
broadcasting. About
40 years ago we called it replication,
but this is irrelevant. The idea has been rediscovered many times and
there
is no possibility of
finding THE right name. The important thing is to explain
it clearly in the Manual so people can understand and use it.
Michael
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