[Numpy-discussion] vander() docstring

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
wrote:

> On 09/04/2008, Andreas Klöckner <lists@informa.tiker.net> wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 26 März 2008, Charles R Harris wrote:
> >  > The docstring is incorrect. The Vandermonde matrix produced is
> compatible
> >  > with numpy polynomials that also go from high to low powers. I would
> have
> >  > done it the other way round, so index matched power, but that isn't
> how it
> >  > is.
>
> I've never seen the vector powers that way around in literature.
> Shouldn't we fix it to correspond to the (vast) majority of
> publications?
>

Turns out it matches the matlab definition. Maybe we just need another
function: vandermonde

Chuck
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