[Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

[David Cournapeau]

David Warde-Farley wrote:
> My first
> instinct would be to look for "logdet", but I would also not expect such
> a function to return the log determinant *and* the sign of the 
> determinant.

What about having logadet for the (common) case where log |A| only is 
needed, and having the more complex function when the sign is needed as 
well ?

cheers,

David