Every other week I find myself solving some kind of problem that involves matrix operations or other linear algebra concepts. I still have my old TI-89 from when I was a student. It’s a handy calculator, no doubt about that, older people will even call it a luxury. But quite frankly, I don’t know why we should use calculators considering the speed of an average personal computer. Or even a cellphone in case you’re thinking about throwing the portability argument.
Anyway, rants aside, I was bored so I put together a tiny javascript library with basic linear algebra functions.
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