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@mschauer mschauer commented Jun 30, 2017

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tkelman commented Jun 30, 2017

maybe just for ::Number to be consistent with det? logabsdet might also be useful in some generic-code cases

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mschauer commented Jun 30, 2017 •
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Hm.

Contra: if det is defined, logdet should be defined as well; if det is not defined, logdet fails with a (helpful) error that det is just not defined.

Pro: the presence of logdet somehow indicates, that it is "better" than just log(det(x))

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bramtayl commented Jun 30, 2017

Is it possible to make a det method that specializes on log generators? Then you could get rid of logdet altogether

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I think this is fine to have for Any since it should always be correct and failing will happen as expected via det and log.

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mschauer commented Jul 7, 2017

I think this is fine now.

@andreasnoack andreasnoack merged commit ad9f5de into JuliaLang:master Jul 7, 2017
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tkelman commented Jul 7, 2017

should probably do logabsdet as well

@mschauer mschauer deleted the logdet branch July 18, 2017 17:44
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